Quotes on Truth

St. John – “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Buddha – “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

Druids – “Y Gwir yn Erbyn y Byd, The truth against the world.”

George Washington – “Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.”

Aristotle – “To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true”

Mark Twain – “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

Marcus Aurelius – “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

Theosophical Society – “There is no religion higher than truth.”

Hinduism – “Truth is defined as “unchangeable”, “that which has no distortion”, “that which is beyond distinctions of time, space, and person”, “that which pervades the universe in all its constancy.”

Galileo Galilei – “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

Henry David Thoreau – “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

Aristotle – “Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt  – “Eternal truths will be neither true or eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.”

Winston Churchill – “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

Elvis Presley – “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.”

George Orwell – “In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Jesus – “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

The Masonic Search for Truth by Albert McKay – “This is the object of all Freemasonry and it is pursued from the first to the last step of initiation. The Apprentice begins it seeking for the light which is symbolized by the WORD, itself only a symbol of Truth. At a Fellow Craft he continues the search, still asking for more light. And the Master Mason, thinking that he has reached it, obtains only its substitute; for the True Word, Divine Truth, dwells not in the first temple of our earthly life, but can be found only in the second temple of the eternal life.

There is a beautiful allegory of the great Milton, who thus describes the search after truth: Truth came into the world with her Divine Master and was a perfect shape and glorious to look Upon. Put when He ascended, and His apostles after Him were laid asleep, there straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as the story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely frame into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds of heaven.

Ever since that time the friends of Truth, such as dust appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all, lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her Master’s second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection. Suffer not these licensing prohibitions to stand at every place of opportunity forbidding and disturbing them that continue seeking, that continue to do our obsequies to the torn body of our martyred saint.”