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What is the Truth
"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father (creator of all things) but through Me." Jesus, the Messiah speaking in the Christian Bible.
John 14:6
The Truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ---Josh Billings
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. --Theodore Parker
The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time bomb in the basement of everybody’s church. --Robert Farrar Capon
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -- Winston Churchill
To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. -- George Orwell
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -- Galileo Galilei
We are often unprepared for Truth, which is why Truth is revealed to us progressively. --Chip Brogden
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. --Agnes Repplier
Truth is beautiful, without a doubt; but so are lies. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Truth: the deadliest weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death. -- John Gilmore
Do not fear repeating what has already been said. Men need the truth dinned into their ears many times and from all sides. The first rumor makes them prick up their ears, the second registers, and the third enters. --Rene Theophile Hyacinthe LaÎnnec
The truth will set you free, but first, it will make you miserable. --Jim Davis
The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide. --Michael Rivero
From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth; from the laziness that is content with half-truths; from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth – oh God of Truth deliver us! —Unknown
The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. --Albert Einstein
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rather than love, then money, then fame, give me the truth. --Thoreau
Peace if possible, truth at all costs. -- Martin Luther
In this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble. --Gary Amirault
One truth out of context can prove very dangerous. –Gregory Phillips
The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide. -- Michael Rivero
To some, the truth is an insult, to others life from the dead. --Gary Amirault
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.--Chuck Swindoll
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell
Candor is a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate. Wilhelm Stekel
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself. --Sydney J. Harris
The ability to lie is a liability. --Unknown
Friends, if we are honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. --George MacDonald
When in doubt, tell the truth. --Mark Twain
Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said. --Mark Twain
It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth. --CS Lewis
"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." --Henry Kissinger
Humility is nothing but the truth, and pride is nothing but lying. -- Vincent de Paul
The folks who know the truth aren't talking…. The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up! --Tom Waits
If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to the truth we must still march on. --Stopford Brooke
First, they ignore it, then they laugh at it, then they say they knew it all along. --Alexander Humbold
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. --Arthur Schopenhauer
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical. --Soren Kierkegaard
Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses--Norman Grubb
The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. --Stephen Hawking
Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. --Rev. Denny Brake
He that never changes his opinions never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. --Tryon Edwards
There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so. --Soren Kierkegaard
Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God. --Karl Barth
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest. --Unknown
The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. --Stephen Hawking
Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near the truth, is the more likely to lead astray. --Henry Ward Beecher
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Niels Bohr
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths maybe the rest of our truths. --William James
I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden because we all just view the world through this little piece of a coke bottle. Jeff Melvoin
All generalizations, including this one, are false. --Mark Twain
The highest truth cannot be put into words. - Lao tzu.
The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old or rejects the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf -- a philosopher or servant, -- but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world. -- Robert G. Ingersoll - (1833-1899) American political leader, orator
The truth was obscure, too plain, and too pure. To live it you had to explode. —Bob Dylan
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility. --Chuck Colson
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. –Bronson Alcott
There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. -- Goethe
In the matter of a difficult question, it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many. – Rene Descartes-Rules
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. -- Dresden James
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. — Adrian Rodgers
A man may be a heretic in the truth, and if he believes things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. F.W. Farrar
The way of discovery still lies open to us in divine things if we have the moral courage and the desire to go to the fountainhead of truth, instead of filling our vessels out of this doctor’s compendium... or be held spellbound by the shadow of a few great names. -- Rev. J. B. Herd
Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side. –Unknown
Our first decision about Truth is based upon Who Jesus is. With that question settled many Christians are content, but Truth is living. The Truth will continue to reveal Himself to us and around us for as long as we will allow it. —Chip Brogden
...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it, and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known. --Blaise Pascal
The thought that provokes thought is much more valuable than the thought that is only an echo of an accepted truth. - Thomas W. Hanford
To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free. —Michael Servetus
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size. --Blaise Pascal
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act. –George MacDonald
The one who buries the Truth in the ground for safekeeping will lose it, while the one who does something with the Truth will receive more Truth. This is why some grow spiritually and some do not. --Chip Brogden
When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier. --Gandhi
A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility, and holy joy. --Thomas Brooks
We know the truth, not only by reason but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal
It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. -- Adrian Rodgers
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -- Martin Luther King
