Humility is truth.
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Truth when not sought after rarely comes to light.
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.
I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Justice is rather the activity of truth than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
The truth is I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth it means to discover a truth.
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas and like those holidays beyond their meaning a factor in our economy.
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything making everything vulgar and every truth false.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful to begin to love yourself value yourself. And that's political in its most profound way.
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
We live in a world of denial and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
The greatest friend of truth is Time her greatest enemy is Prejudice and her constant companion is Humility.