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We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

We need to replace the lies of the enemy with the truth of God; to do so we need to know the truth of God.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.

We were created for eternal life by our Creator, we are called to it by the word of God, and we are renewed by holy Baptism. And Christ the Son of God came into the world for this, that He should call us and take us there, and He is the one thing needful. For this reason your very first endeavor and care should be to receive it. Without it everything is as nothing, though you have the whole world under you.

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!

What, can the devil speak true?

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

Whatever you say about something, it is not.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

What is not in nature can never be true.

What is true belongs to me!

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

"What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For "truth" itself is an abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substance (the Truth, the Body of Knowledge), or a quality (something like the colour red, inhering in truths), or a relation ("correspondence"). But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word "true." In vino, possibly, "veritas," but in a sober symposium "verum.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

What joy is ours that the Lord not only forgives our sins ,but allows the soul to know Him, so soon as she humbles herself. The poorest wretch can humble himself and know God in the Holy Spirit. There is no need of money or posessions in order to know God, only humility. The Lord gives Himself freely, for His mercy's sake alone. I did not know this before but now every day and every hour every minute, I see clearly the mercy of God. The Lord gives peace even in sleep, but without God there is no peace in the soul.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

When all else fails, tell the truth.

When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.