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“The reason why God is so great a lover of humility is because He is the great lover of truth; and humility is nothing but truth, whilst pride is nothing but lying.”
Vincent de Paul (1581–1660) said by 1660 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Groundwork of the Christian Virtues : A Course of Lectures (1882) by William Bernard Ullathorne, p. 84
“In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.”
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power, He who upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed, He, indeed, is Thy most valued helper, O Mazda Ahura!”
“Physicists had abandoned God long ago and hoped that firing repeated questions at nature would get to the truth. What scientists really believed in was that the think-check-think-again style of scientific method would yield some species of Truth.”
Gregory Benford (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love of God is firstly the attachment of the intelligence to the Truth, then the attachment of the will to the Good, and finally the attachment of the soul to the Peace that is given by the Truth and the Good.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beauty is a reflection of divine beatitude; and since God is Truth, the reflection of His beatitude will be that blend of happiness and truth found in all beauty.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Esoteric truth is a two-edged sword: there are men who lose God because they are ignorant of this truth, which alone would save them, and there are others who think they understand it and forge for themselves an illusory and arrogant faith, which they put practically in place of God.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth is unerring; it is the star which leads to Christ. Truth is pure (Psa 119:140)”
Thomas Watson (Puritan) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.”
Gerald Massey (1828–1907) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Retort, from Gerald Massey's Lectures c.1900; often cited as They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.
“Christianity is again demonstrating the Life that is Truth, and the Truth that is Life”
Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can't handle the truth. Because the truth is, I blew up the Murrah building and isn't it kind of scary that one man could reap this kind of hell?”
Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dead Man Talking, The Observer (April 22, 2001)
“What Jesus spoke was Truth; the way He spoke was gracious. He spoke the truth in love. God is love, and the Son of God spoke lovingly.”
James Hamilton (1814–1871) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let the Bible itself dwell in you — Christ's own word in Christ's own tone — the truth as it was in Jesus — truth dissolved in love, and redolent of sanctity.”
James Hamilton (1814–1871) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Save yourself from the wrath of Allah (swt), and do not abandon speaking the truth, even though it (apparently) causes your destruction. Know that truth does not lead into your annihilation; rather it is a saviour. Always let go of the untruth; even though it (apparently) saves you. Untruth is never a saviour, and it eventually leads into annihilation.”
Musa al-Kadhim (745–799) said by 799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sad truth is that the truth is sad.”
Daniel Handler (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth! stark naked truth, is the word, and I will not so much as take the pains to bestow the strip of a gauze-wrapper on it.”
John Cleland (1709–1789) said by 1789 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discover the truth, because of his own efforts.”
Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each thinker has the right to do what Paul did, to set forth truth as he sees it, in the thought-forms of his own day and generation, as long as he does not willfully distort truth merely to fit his own ideas.”
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every denomination within organized Christianity contains a valuable truth, but none contains all truth. Each mirrors at its best something of Christ but all are only caricatures of him.”
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here it is that the Spirit teaches us all truth; for all truth is eminently contained in this sacrifice of love, where the soul strips itself of every thing to present it to God.”
François Fénelon (1651–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[S]ome scientists focus on ideal beauty, others on empirical truth. My own approach, following a great tradition going back to Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler, has been to use beauty as a guide to truth.”
Frank Wilczek (born 1951) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beautiful, Impractical Physics" (Oct. 29, 2020) The Wall Street Journal.
“He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.”
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) said by 1853 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth is beyond space and time. One who does not yearn for truth, will be trapped within space and time and become dogged. That man alone can remain free from mulish tendencies, who has the capacity to think across time: in the past, present and the future. One who draws from the innumerable events of the past, will never be obstinate.”
Mahāprajña (1920–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The balance between karma and akarma gives holistic vision..Lots of discussions regarding Karmayoga.No work can be completed without karma.That is the truth.Everybody accepts this truth.Our world is one of incompleteness.Where there is incompleteness, there is relativity.Both karma and akarma are relative.No work is completed without akarma.”
Mahāprajña (1920–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.”
John Danforth (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You don’t need me to tell you this, it’s in every newspaper every day, on every page. It is our modern reality. Truth and transparency are its only antidote, and truth and transparency needs all of us. To live in a society, to be a citizen, to love your country — you cannot sleepwalk through it.”
Karen Kwiatkowski (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My death shall do it." Other martyrs have died in simple fidelity to truth. This martyr dies that He may make His truth mighty over all hearts. He was a man; but was He only a man?”
Herrick Johnson (1832–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.”
James Burgh (1714–1775) first seen 1754 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: James Burgh, in The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
Also quoted by: Horace Mann (misattributed), Horace Mann
“The more any man is in the contemplation of truth, the more fairer and firmer impression is made upon his heart by truth.”
Thomas Brooks (Puritan) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Settle in your mind, that no sermon is worth much in which the Lord is not the principal speaker. There may be poetry, refinement, historic truth, moral truth, pathos, and all the charms of rhetoric; but all will be lost, for the purposes of preaching, if the word of the Lord is not the staple of the discourse.”
John Hall (Presbyterian pastor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety. Take your stand, unswerving, heroic, by the altar of truth; and from that altar let neither sophistry nor ridicule expel you. Let your faith rest with a child's trust, with a martyr's grip, upon the truth as it is in Jesus.”
William Morley Punshon (1824–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who honours the Son, who is the Word and Reason, acts in nowise contrary to reason, and gains for himself great good; he who honours Him, who is the Truth, becomes better by honouring truth: and this we may say of honouring wisdom, righteousness, and all the other names by which the sacred Scriptures are wont to designate the Son of God.”
Origen (184–254) said by 254 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we inherit stolen wealth in a will, we would live under a stolen future – thereby mortgaging our future. Remember, what comes from God goes to Him. What comes from truth goes to truth. What comes from stealing goes to stealing. What comes from destruction goes to destruction.”
T. B. Joshua (1963–2021) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On leaders who store up wealth illegally - "Choose The Path Of A Champion" Ghana Web (December 25 2010)
“The scientific man seeks truth as a continually developing revelation, and he changes his outlook on the world... as it unfolds itself before his eyes. The priest teaches that in some remote period... God... revealed Truth once and for all time, and his profession is to guard it against all comers.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A truth... [by] divine revelation must... be supposed... the absolute or ultimate truth... unattainable by... human inquiry.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What a scientific man conceives to be the truth is... distinct. He is not concerned.., not... greatly interested, in ultimate, absolute and unattainable truth. He frames a hypothesis and tests it in every possible way. So long as... fact is in accord with the hypothesis, and no other hypothesis is in accord.., it is all he seeks to know.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anderson demonstrates that if one accepts a sham mystery as real, one has stopped or strayed in the search for truth, and truth has survival value.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is truth in Jesus which is terrible, as well as truth that is soothing; terrible, for He shall be Judge as well as Saviour; and ye cannot face Him, ye cannot stand before Him, unless ye now give ear to His invitation.”
Henry Melvill (1798–1871) said by 1871 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through the telegraph between earth and heaven, and makes both Testaments thrill, through the ages of the past and future, with living, harmonious, and saving truth.”
Edward Thomson (1810–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In society's eyes the virtue of saying the right thing at the right time is more important that the virtue of telling the whole truth, or even of telling the truth at all.”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowledge is light and it opens with the owner of wide ranging magazines that truly fill those who seek the truth with joy But if we delve deeper it teaches us that we must seek the truth in other sources Finally we find answers to existential questions about the meaning of life and the mystery of death but it is a comfort to all.”
Franco Bassani (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth is like nudity: It is on occasion indispensable, but it is dangerous and should not be displayed openly. It is truth that gives life its grandeur, but the polite fictions that make it bearable.”
Jack McDevitt (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are all sleeping princesses some time. But it is better to be fully awake, don’t you think?”...“Americans do not want to be awake?” “Oh,” Becca said, “we like the truth all right. When it’s tidy.” “Truth is never tidy. Only fairy tales.”
Jane Yolen (1939–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Did you read any philosopher? Or in your formation did you never spend time reading, for example, Hegel? As an example, Hegel says, ‘The truth is in the whole’, it’s always in the whole that you find the truth. [Having declared himself still one of the greatest managers in the world, Mourinho was asked if he could still lay claim to that title if he did not win the Premier League with United.]”
José Mourinho (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In China, there is a long history of the government not revealing information, so it’s difficult for the Chinese people to ever know the truth. It is vital that we try to bring that truth to life.”
“We do not know the truth. But sometimes we get a glimpse of the shadow of the truth. And where there is a shadow, somewhere there must be light.”
Eric Mervyn Lindsay (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no truth without the form of truth, namely justice.”
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days.”
Soko Morinaga (1925–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reporting on receiving his first sermon from Gotō Zuigan, in Novice to Master : An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity (2002), p. 29; "There Is No Trash" — online excerpt published in Ashé Journal, Vol 4, I…
“Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.”
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal statement of a truth with a living exemplification of that truth.”
Henry Clay Trumbull (1830–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source