Inspirational Quotes on Truth

“When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.”

“Let us, then, cultivate an attitude of courage as over against the investigations of the day. None should be more zealous in them then we. None should be more quick to discern truth in every field, more hospitable to receive it, more loyal to follow it wherever it leads.”

“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”

“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.”

“It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.”

“Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.”

“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”

“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.”

“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.”

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”

“It's not enough to rage against the lie...you've got to replace it with the truth.”

“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”

“No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.”

“Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.”

“An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy.”

“No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.”

“It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.”

“Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.”