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Truth Quotes by Saint Augustine
- A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
- Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone…
- Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
- True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth...…
- We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone
- And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and…
- Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
- The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life,…
- Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.
- We should never use the truth to wound.
- Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself…
- It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.
- Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.
- All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.
- Beauty is the brilliance of truth.
- Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest,…
- In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways…
- He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally…
- I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
- You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden…
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- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
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