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Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. Flannery O’Connor

Gradually I came to see that I could use the Bible,
which had so baffled me, as an instrument for digging out precious truths,
just as I could use my hindered, halting body for the high behests of my spirit.

Helen Keller

Pour out light and truth as God pours sunshine and rain;
no longer seek knowledge as the luxury of a few,
but dispense it amongst all as the bread of life.

Horace Mann

I never give them hell.  I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.

Harry S. Truman

It's not enough to know your truth; you must live it!

Stephen C. Paul

It is not always easy to hear the truth, but . . . . the truth can lead us
on to be better than we already are.  When we walk in the truth,
we are walking toward God.  God is truth, and the more time we spend
in honesty, the more time we spend with God.  Not only should we seek out
truth in others, but we should let others know that they will receive truth
when they come to us.  There is very little we could want more than for
other people to be able to trust us.  Trust is the cornerstone upon which
solid and lasting friendships are built.  We can do a person
no greater service than to deal with them in truth and love.

Dan and Nancy Dick

It is through the idealism of youth that people catch
sight of truth, and in that idealism they possess a wealth
which they must never exchange for anything else.

Albert Schweitzer

No human being on the face of this earth possesses the whole truth.
Each of us has only a small part; but if we are willing to share our
small parts, our pieces of the truth, we will all possess a much fuller
reality, a much larger share of the total truth. . . . It's hard to imagine
that a person could be totally wrong about any complex issue.
Everyone has some part of the truth to share.

John Powell, S.J.

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I speak truth, not as much as I would, but as much
as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older.

Michel de Montaigne

But truth is so great a thing that we ought not to
despise any medium that will conduct us to it.

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Yiddish proverb

The Buddha spoke gently, "Once a person is caught by belief
in a doctrine, one loses all one's freedom.  When one
becomes dogmatic, that person believes his or her doctrine
is the only truth and that all other doctrines are heresy.
Disputes and conflicts all arise from narrow views.  They can
extend endlessly, wasting precious time and sometimes even
leading to war.  Attachment to views is the greatest impediment
to the spiritual path.  Bound to narrow views, one becomes
so entangled that it is no longer possible
to let the door of truth open."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Anaïs Nin

People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most
pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

  Winston Churchill

Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth;
and the person who would be blessed and happy
should be from the first a partaker of truth,
for then that person can be trusted.

Plato

Truth ever has the most strength of what people say.

Sophocles

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Once the truth is told, you never need to pretend again.

Stephen C. Paul

Always remember that you can be dead right about
the facts and altogether wrong about the truth.

Daniel

Such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks,
and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

André Gide

Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite.  Islanded between
the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.

Cyril Connolly

We must make the truth as simple, as persuasive, as impelling
and as interesting as the lie often seems to be.  The truth can
never enslave, it can never mesmerize.  The truth is always
within us.  We do not awaken to an eternal fact, but to an
eternal birthright which is the innermost of realities.  Let us,
then, recapture our thinking by getting back to first principles.
When once we see the meaning of God, and the human's
relationship to God, nothing can enslave our thinking again.

Erwin D. Canham

The most casual student of history knows that, as a matter of fact,
truth does not necessarily vanquish.  What is more, truth can never
win unless it is promulgated.  Truth does not carry within itself an
anti-toxin to falsehood.  The cause of truth must be championed,
and it must be championed dynamically.

William F. Buckley, Jr.
God and Man at Yale

   
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