Truth Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Half a truth is better than no politics.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton