Things happen for a reason Quote by Aristotle (384â322 BC

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

— Aristotle

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

— Aristotle

“Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.”

— Aristotle

Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the…

— Eugenie de Guerin

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different…

— Richard M. Weaver

“Piety is a state of mind that exists in all of us.”

— Dr. Hussam Atef Elkhatib

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

— Benjamin Cardozo

Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot…

— Anthony Collins

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that…

— Mary Pipher

When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.

— Jose Bernardo

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has…

— Anonymous