Defending Truth Quotes

#1. When it comes to the culture, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we're not defending truth, fighting for Christian values in all of life, the truth will be sacrificed on the altar of mainstream secularism.

Charles Colson

#2. Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

F. Lee Bailey

#3. The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

Bob Dylan

#4. While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.

Ronald H. Nash

#5. Integrity is more than truth and honesty; integrity is an unshackled mind, a happy heart, and a light spirit. Integrity is inner peace with a clear, clean conscience. Integrity is self-respect, honor, and credibility. Integrity is healthy and unfettering, and it is worth defending.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

William Blake

#7. All my life, people have been underestimating me.

Hugh Carey

#8. When someone reacts violently and aggressively, it only goes to demonstrate the lack of truth, trust and confidence in oneself and issue that we are defending. It rather portrays the guilt, shame and self anger for defending the indefensible.

Vishwas Chavan

#9. Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.

Sam Altman

#10. A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

C.S. Lewis

#11. 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.

Simone De Beauvoir

#12. One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. My friends who have gone that way are many times beholden to their boards of directors, to 'sell' ideas to a team.

Blake Mycoskie

#13. Human beings are known universally as the only animals capable of lying, and while it is true that they sometimes lie out of fear and sometimes out of self-interest, they also occasionally lie because they realize, just in time, that this is the only means available to them of defending the truth.

Jose Saramago

#14. The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.

Henry Parry Liddon

#15. I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

James A. Garfield

#16. The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

Rachel Cusk

#17. There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is unavoidable when one seeks to defend an ultimate standard of truth, for one's defense must itself be accountable to that standard.

John M. Frame

#18. The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. Sometimes, like the bird that burns to ashes and then rises again renewed, the phoenix, we have to burn.

Russell Ablewhite

#20. Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion.

George MacDonald

#21. You don't have to. I have enough faith in you," she said, "for the both of us.

Cassandra Clare

#22. I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

Mason Cooley

#23. If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.

Harvey Bialy

#24. Thank God, thank God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Unhealthy relationships are most commonly lacking in the most essential of ingredient: healthy communication.

Asa Don Brown

#26. To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#27. It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.

Janet Evanovich