 A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity. Author: Francis de Sales |
| Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| Half a truth is better than no politics. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| 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. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| Disagreement is refreshing when two men lovingly desire to compare their views to find out truth. Controversy is wretched when it is only an attempt to prove another wrong. Religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right - a spirit in which no man gets at truth. Author: Frederick W. Robertson |
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| Truth lies in character. Christ did not simply speak the truth; he was truth; truth, through and through; for truth is a thing not of words, but of life and being. Author: Frederick W. Robertson |
| It is wondrous how, the truer we become, the more unerringly we know the ring of truth, can discern whether a man be true or not, and can fasten at once upon the rising lie in word and look and dissembling act - wondrous how the charity of Christ in the heart perceives every aberration from charity in others, in ungentle thought or slanderous tone. Author: Frederick W. Robertson |
| The deepest truths are the simplest and the most common. Author: Frederick W. Robertson |
| Attitudes are more important than facts. Author: George Macdonald |
| When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure of just one ally, that is the devil. Not the defeat of the intellect, but the acceptance of the heart is the only true object in fighting with the sword of the spirit. Author: George Macdonald |
| Do the truth ye know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. Author: George Macdonald |
