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Truth Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to…
- The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
- Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
- Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure…
- Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was…
- In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no…
- Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the…
- Half a truth is better than no politics.
- The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other…
- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare…
- It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound…
- But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the God, and the…
- The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much…
- What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one…
- But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which…
- The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
- A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.
- Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
- A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that…
- You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth…
- In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.
- The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but,…
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- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov