Truth Quotes by Margaret Fuller, Emily Dickinson, Frank Knight, Michael Servetus, Michel Foucault, Peace Pilgrim and many others.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Truth – is as old as God-.
The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.
To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.
Leaving home’ to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.
We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
And diff’ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.
Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you’re smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That’s why I’m a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.
Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.
One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.
The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.
With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart.
Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and miraculous, and answer to our ideal. . . . Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That’s just my nature.
The highest truth cannot be put into words.
Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.
Truth is like most opinions – best unexpressed.
Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.
Truth is independent of facts always.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
The biggest thing is the heart. If you find the heart in what you do, if it’s stage work, set work, modeling, you find the heart of it, that’s where the truth actually stems from. Our true personality shines from within.
The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.
influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.
… the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
The easiest person to deceive is one’s self.
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.
We are free to yield to truth.
In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.
You can’t serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine – ‘Beauty is the splendor of Truth.’
Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated ‘Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us’, Pasteur did not entirely disagree, ‘This is true for certain diseases’, he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: ‘I do not think that it is true for all of them’.
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and ’tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.
To tell the truth, I’d join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn’t join a band with Paul McCartney, but it’s nothing personal. It’s just from a musical point of view.
If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.
The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
Fantastic truths perish slower… Sappho’s moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
Tell the children the truth.
Tell the truth. Say what is happening. Allow what is, and allow it to be known. Bring your children up in a home that is clean and clear and honest. There is no greater legacy you can give them.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.
Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
the true and the plausible are rarely the same.
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete
Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep.
By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.
When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom
Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren’t all staked yet.
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.
Naked Truth needs no shift.
I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.
Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
I say that justice is truth in action.
Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.
If you tell the truth, you don’t need a long memory.
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.
Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,–not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.
In a sense, there’s a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
It is a fool’s prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.
Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.
The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.
The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
The only way love can last a lifetime is if it’s unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error… They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only… If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
At times truth may not seem probable.
We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?
This doesn’t seem like one of those ‘truth will set you free’ situations.
Truth is more than a dream and a song.
Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.
Even when we talked about child labor, we were frowned upon. But then you know that you have to speak the truth irrespective of the repercussions.
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that’s difficult to access – to a level that’s not material but spiritual.
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
Sometimes the truth is not as believable as a well-crafted lie.
I think all good reporting is the same thing – the best attainable version of the truth.
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.
We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.
It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self.
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Sacrifice life to truth.
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
Nobody speaks the truth when there’s something they must have.
My dad don’t like lies. He says it hurts people in the long race. He prefers the truth. That hurts them instantly.
Grant me an old man’s frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.
The truth is an anagram of an anagram.
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.
The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart
Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.
Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty– Her throne is in heaven above.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.
Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. “Tell the tailors,” said he, “to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch.” His companion’s prayer is forgotten.
Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
You didn’t tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right — at least if you have any experience — because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.
Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Even great spirits have only their five-fingers’ breadth of experience – just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.
But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn’t like jam if it didn’t, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn’t like truth if it wasn’t sticky, if, from time to time, it didn’t ooze blood.
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
The truth is that those who join gangs – more often than not they are young men in their later teens – often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.
Love truth, but pardon error.
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.
The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
With windlasses and with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions out.
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
With windlasses and with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions out.
You don’t think in depression that you’ve put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you’re seeing truly.
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth.
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
Truth is but approved facts.
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth – then it’s far too late when they pass away.
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
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.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
May I always hear that you are following the guidance of that blessed Spirit that will lead you into all truth, leaning on that Almighty arm that has been extended to deliver you, trusting only in the only Savior, and going on in your way to Him rejoicing.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe ‘I’m the onlyone who knows.’
Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.
I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.
The truth sets you free. It’s a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It’s amazing.
Truth is for the minority.
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
There’s what people want to hear, then there’s what people want to believe, there’s everything else, then there’s truth.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
The truth of truths is love.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Honesty is the best policy.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
I know no diplomacy save that of truth.
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
All Dogs Go To Heaven? Sorry, kids. It’s only the dogs who’ve accepted Christ.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
[Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]
[Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
Nothing misleads people like the truth.
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they are the ‘truth’.
Truth is such a precious article – let us all economize in its use.
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
At times truth may not seem probable.
[Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n’etre pas vraisemblable.]
[Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n’etre pas vraisemblable.]
Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it
Your version of the truth is all that matters.
The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
An autobiography is not about pictures; it’s about the stories; it’s about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people’s privacy.
The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
Never assume the obvious is true.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself ‘Is the statement true or false in my experience?’
All truths are not to be told.
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.
Let us seek truth everywhere;
let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom
or its SEED. Having Found the seed,
let us scatter it to the winds of heaven.
Where ever it may blow, it will germinate.
There is no lack in this wide universe of souls
that will form the new ground.
let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom
or its SEED. Having Found the seed,
let us scatter it to the winds of heaven.
Where ever it may blow, it will germinate.
There is no lack in this wide universe of souls
that will form the new ground.
Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its value, go with it.
All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can’t get it out.
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
I have mummy truths to tell
Whereat the living mock,
Though not for sober ear,
For maybe all that hear
Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.
Whereat the living mock,
Though not for sober ear,
For maybe all that hear
Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
It is no proof of a man’s understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.
The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It’s less sweep you off your feet and more sweep the kitchen four times a day. Like everything good in life, it’s 98% back-breaking work and 2% moments that make the work worthwhile.
the truth is artistically fallacious.
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
The flowering of love is meditation.
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature… It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect.
An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels’ bread when found.
What is not in nature can never be true.
The truth about myself? I’m obstinate, self-assured, ambitious and sloppy. I think I lead a quite normal life, certainly with five hours of trainig per day. Many people would probably be surprised if they met me.
I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We’re all built with illusions. And they break.
We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.
So with truth – there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.
You needn’t think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.
A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister… For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.
Maybe it was mean, but I really don’t think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?
Real life’s nasty. It’s cruel. It doesn’t care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
We don’t go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.
Man can certainly keep on lying… but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel… but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.
I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.
The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.
Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.
There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.
If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
The truth is ever best.
It’s not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
Truth … is the sovereign good of human nature.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.
Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. “I’m okay” we say. “I’m alright”. But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can’t get it off. That’s when you realize that sometimes it isn’t even an answer–it’s a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
I am the only real truth I know.
“Integrative” simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Truth usually stammers at first.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
All truth is not to be told at all times.
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Only the dead know the truth.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
The truth is, sex doesn’t mean that much to me now.
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
Who lies for you will lie against you.
I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.
It is perfectly monstrous,’ he said, at last, ‘the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
What is true belongs to me!
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
…I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.
If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.
Country music is three chords and the truth.
I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Homely truth is unpalatable.
Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.
We have no blasphemy laws these days but with that freedom comes the responsibility which should always attend the exercise of free speech: truth, courtesy and an awareness of impact. It is the last of these which is so neglected by so much modern comedy.
The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion
A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent’s statement as unworthy of trust.
No one wants to hear the truth if it isn’t what they want to hear.
Truth, like a torch, the more it’s shook it shines.
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don’t see that?
If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That’s what I wanted – to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.
A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
There’s a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood – that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
I’m sure you think that I don’t understand what you’re going through, but I do. It’s just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.
I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth.
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
I further testify that when we eventually see things through the proper perspective of eternal truth, we will be amazed at how much we were blessed in important though often unperceived ways through keeping the Sabbath Day holy.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
Do not think that this is all there is. More and more wonderful teachings exist.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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.
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?
Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
Science is but an image of the truth.
It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.
Those who submit to the Lord with simple heart will run the good race. If they keep their minds on a leash, they will not draw the wickedness of the demons onto themselves.
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
Half the world’s troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.
The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.
One truth, many paths.
All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.
if we look upon awaking as an end or a goal to be accomplished, we deny the truth of presence.
There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.
If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn’t been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.
Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and ‘t is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don’t give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you’re not telling the truth. So it’s like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it’s too much for you.
Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing–and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good–but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.
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.
Tell me a fact, and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth, and I’ll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.
I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.
Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
For to define true madness,
What is’t but to be nothing else but mad?
What is’t but to be nothing else but mad?
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .
The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.
The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
He who seeks truth should be of no country.
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
Truth doesn’t run on time like a commuter train.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
I don’t tell the truth any more to those who can’t make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.
A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags…
My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic – that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.
You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which will probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth.
Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about peace, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ.
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.
As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.
There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.
Every thing to be true must become a religion.
The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth.
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it – a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.
The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
The nimble lie
Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth
Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen,
And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike
Till it has reached the goal.
Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth
Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen,
And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike
Till it has reached the goal.
And took for truth the test of ridicule.
No one is entitled to the truth.
There’s something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.
The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.
Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Truth is not always a pleasant thing.
Our lives improve only when we take chances.
Country music is the people’s music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue’s name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature’s sternest painter, yet the best.
Were I to personify Justice, instead of presenting her blind, I would denominate her the goddess of fire. . . Of unbending integrity Justice should feel, hear and see; but truth alone should be the polar star by which she should shape her movements, and equity only should constrain her determinations.
When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, “When you are in doubt,” but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning’s greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.
As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.
Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. “One word of truth outweighs the world.
Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
If you live your life in truth, the truth will out.
Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember.
If you’re thinking of coming to America, this is what it’s like: you’ve got your Comfort Inn, you’ve got your Best Western, and you’ve got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody’s very fat, everybody’s very stupid and everybody’s very rude – it’s not a holiday programme, it’s the truth.
Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.
But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so much sought and cared for, appears in history and biography only in a more or less disfigured condition.
I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.
You never monkey with the truth.
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
We need to replace the lies of the enemy with the truth of God; to do so we need to know the truth of God.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God’s Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.
So, I think that’s the centerpiece of morality: Don’t lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
It’s not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it’s necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it’s a thing that we tell ourselves that makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
I don’t mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don’t tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
Chase after the truth like all hell.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Nor seek, for this is also sooth,
To hunger fiercely after truth,
Lest all thy toiling only breeds
New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth
Saving in thine own heart.
To hunger fiercely after truth,
Lest all thy toiling only breeds
New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth
Saving in thine own heart.
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth – that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you’re playing a tender love story that’s set in a coffee shop or whether you’re in ‘The Avengers,’ which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society.
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
Truth has as many coats as an onion … and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
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.
Truth hath a quiet breast.
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,–for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,–truth is an ideal whole.
For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
A few honest men are better than numbers.
Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.
God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.
The solutions all are simple – after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they’re not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people’s lives than just truth. I can’t stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.
For truth there is no deadline.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
The theory of truth is a series of truisms.
A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
It is a true saying that ‘one falsehood easily leads to another.’
Error is certainty’s constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way.
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing
The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.
It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.
Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
Here or nowhere is our heaven.
No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
If we try hard to do what that truth requires of us, God will send more light and more truth. It will go on, line after line, as long as we choose to obey the truth. That is why the Savior said that the man who obeyed His commandments built on a rock so solid that no storm of flood could hurt his house.
What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
We can’t control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what’s happening. That awareness can be our refuge.
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it. You find that out really fast.
A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
That’s the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won’t leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what’s really so. That can he annoying.
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
A thing’s innate disposition does not lie.
The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.
I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.
I don’t think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That’s a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.
Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
Truth may have been found but might never be known.
Truth is the root of all the charities.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself – on which is founded the entire integral calculus – is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.
When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us.
Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.
For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the power or Spirit of God to act, speak, or think what is holy, justand true; [Enthusiasm is] A Full, but false persuasion in a man that he is inspired.
Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he’s so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.
We don’t get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.
God is truth and light his shadow.
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality… First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.
Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.
Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet – I but calculate.
Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.
In every principle presented to us, our first inquiry should be, “Is it true?” “Does it emanate from God?” If he is its Author it can be sustained just as much as any other truth in natural philosophy; if false it should be opposed and exposed just as much as any other error.
It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word…Only the truth will set us free.
Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.
People assume actors are born liars, but I’d argue the actor’s job is to tell the truth. And I’ve realised I’m not a good liar.
A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
Life’s experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
My bullshit meter is reading that as ‘false’.
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be … The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.
We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
Talent for talent’s sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.
As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue
…Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.
A radical is one who speaks the truth.
Only a lion can recognize a lion’s roar.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that’s why chess is so fascinating.
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?
Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.
Truth needs meditative eyes. If you don’t have meditative eyes, then the whole life is just dull dead facts, unrelated to each other, accidental, meaningless, a jumble, just a chance phenomenon. If you see the truth, everything falls into line, everything falls together in a harmony, everything starts having significance.
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one’s debt.
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
Telling the truth … is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.
My truth is that what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
Abstract truth is the eye of reason.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
A poet’s object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably…. For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.
When the truth is spoken, it doesn’t need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.
Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.
The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.
But then people don’t read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
You can’t deny reality just because you can’t explain it.
A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
People may or may not say what they mean… but they always say something designed to get what they want.
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn’t glitter and shine.
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
Truth is mighty and it will prevail.
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The ‘facts’ themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.
Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.
There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth… that saves the world.
Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.
You can’t cheat an honest man.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.
Trump’s behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings. Contempt for truth and honesty, and for norms, rules and laws. A complete inability to feel remorse, or guilt.
It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.
Real intimacy depends on truth – lovingly told – especially in the bedroom.
The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics, in so far as disposed through it we are able to reach certainty in other sciences and truth by the exclusion of error.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
I imagine I appear very outgoing, and I do enjoy people and parties and being involved in life. I am also a very private person, and I value my quiet time. I think people assume I am just a party animal, and in truth, I need to recharge my battery just like everyone else.
There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.
As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth.
Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act – truth is always subversive.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn’t be interested in the answer anymore
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
It was the first time I realized that absolute reality could be so much more fun than fantasy.
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.
I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.
Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.
Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
Pure truth is for God alone.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
Seek greater knowledge and you shall possess greater truth
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
