Quotes about truth
truth errors truth-is
Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
truth lateness lessons
When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.
truth
All truths are not to be told. George Herbert
truth sun submit
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
truth dark reality
Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded. Christian Bale
truth lying answers
If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore Chris Hillman
truth intelligent political
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. George Orwell
truth honesty men
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. George R. R. Martin
truth people taste
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
truth honor intuition
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. Jean Cocteau
truth stupid-people tools
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. George Carlin
truth needs reason
The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.... Frederick Carl Frieseke
truth acceptance resistance
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance. Frederick Douglass
truth hero expression
Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes. Felix Frankfurter
truth loses
They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it. Fanny Kemble
truth america people
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth. Francis Parker Yockey
truth sovereign human-nature
Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature. Francis Bacon
truth needs fiction
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
truth daylight naked
Truth is a naked and open daylight
truth pleasure standing
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
truth answers said
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
truth
The truth will always have a market. Jean Shepherd
truth errors attention
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. Jean Rostand
truth fighting mind
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
truth race littles
There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
truth future science
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
truth shapes littles
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
truth scientist premature
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
truth fall thinking
I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always...whenever you are in doubt that that is God's way - the way the world is meant to be. Think of that and then try to do His way. Jean Vanier
truth responsibility men
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. Grover Cleveland
truth honesty kindness
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. Graham Greene
truth lying drinking
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
truth lying reading
I keep reading between the lies. Goodman Ace