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Quotes about Truth by Saint Augustine

  • We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
  • The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
  • Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.
  • All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.
  • If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
  • We should never use the truth to wound.
  • Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
  • The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
  • Truth is not private property.