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.

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.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything making everything vulgar and every truth false.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error and another to put him in possession of the truth.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is we think of them as we please that is as they please or displease us.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes but is a reward in itself.

When you're caught up in the storm or you know just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

Memory is a complicated thing a relative to truth but not its twin.

The Bible may be the truth but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The truth is that life is delicious horrible charming frightful sweet bitter and that is everything.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Seldom very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is nine times out of ten a proof that you ought to publish it.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

I have the terrible feeling that because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats not Mount Sinai.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Above all I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling I have found is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.