Friday, November 5, 2010

truth quotes, needed for such a time as this

"I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father (creator of all things) but through Me." Jesus, the Messiah speaking in the Christian Bible. John 14:6
The Truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ---Josh Billings
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. --Theodore Parker
The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody’s church. --Robert Farrar Capon
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.-- Winston Churchill
To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. -- George Orwell
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.-- Galileo Galilei
We are often unprepared for Truth, which is why Truth is revealed to us progressively. --Chip Brogden
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. --Agnes Repplier
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.-- John Gilmore
Do not fear to repeat what has already been said. Men need the truth dinned into their ears many times and from all sides. The first rumor makes them prick up their ears, the second registers, and the third enters.--Rene Theophile Hyacinthe LaÎnnec
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. --Jim Davis
The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide.--Michael Rivero
From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth; from the laziness that is content with half-truths; from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth – oh God of Truth deliver us!—Unknown
The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. --Albert Einstein
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. --Thoreau
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.-- Martin Luther
In this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble. --Gary Amirault
One truth out of context can prove very dangerous. –Gregory Phillips
The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide. -- Michael Rivero
To some the truth is an insult, to others life from the dead. --Gary Amirault
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.--Chuck Swindoll
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell
Candor is a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate. Wilhelm Stekel
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.--Sydney J. Harris
The ability to lie is a liability.--Unknown
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.--George MacDonald
When in doubt, tell the truth. --Mark Twain
Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.--Mark Twain
It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth. --CS Lewis
"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." --Henry Kissinger
Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. -- Vincent de Paul
The folks who know the truth aren't talking…. The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up! --Tom Waits
If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on. --Stopford Brooke
First they ignore it, then they laugh at it, then they say they knew it all along. --Alexander Humbold
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. --Arthur Schopenhauer


Truth, the only thing that will change the life of a person from one of death to one of life.
Know the Truth and it will set you free

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