Famous Quotes About truth

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.