Nikolai Gogol Quotes

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.