Inspirational Quotes on Truth

“Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.”

“Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.”

“Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what great things God has shown to our soul.”

“The Christian apologist should be able to present God in his full attractiveness so that his rivals in the world are eclipsed.”

“We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken.”

“If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

“A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.”

“The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.”

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

“The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.”

“I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.”

“After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates, or Aristotle, we feel that the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.”

“Let things true be preferred to things false, things eternal to things momentary, things useful to things agreeable.”

“The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.”

“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.”

“Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.”

“Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.”

“Though the light shines on things unclean, yet it is not thereby defiled.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. ”

“One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.”