Inspirational Quotes on Truth

“He who abandons the personal search for truth, under whatever pretext, abandons truth. The very word truth, by becoming the limited possession of a guild, ceases to have any meaning; and faith, which can only be founded on truth, gives way to credulity, resting on mere opinion.”

“There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.”

“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.”

“Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.”

“Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.”

“Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.”

“Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.”

“Error is always more busy than truth.”

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.”

“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”

“It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.”

“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.”

“We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.”

“Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.”

“Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.”

“It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.”

“Raillery and wit were never made to answer our inquiries after truth, and to determine a question of rational controversy, though they may be sometimes serviceable to expose to contempt those inconsistent follies which have been first abundantly refuted by argument; they serve indeed only to cover nonsense with shame, when reason has first proved it to be mere nonsense.”

“We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.”

“Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.”

“To maintain pure truth in the church, we should be ready to make any sacrifice, to hazard peace, to risk dissention and run the chance of division.”