Quotes about truth
truth real joy
What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth. Oprah Winfrey
truth doors poetry
The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through. Margaret Atwood
truth love-you weapons
A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?
truth writing hands
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.
truth light trying
Do not try to be what you are not, be what you are. The Universe has a built in truth recognizer, what ever is false about you, it will expose to light, either through you or others, pay attention. Marcus Thomas
truth men firsts
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. Marcus Tullius Cicero
truth mind desire
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
truth philosophical mind
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
truth writing law
Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?
truth lying littles
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie. [Lat., Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit.]
truth men world
Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.
truth writing law
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
truth self would-be
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
truth falsehood
It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'
truth fire sparks
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.
truth philosophical imitation
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
truth passion action
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
truth philosophical thinking
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
truth giving honest
The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give. Kenny Loggins
truth nice reality
Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to ourselves without altering it, "like a bird caught with a limestick." But the reality is, every truth we manage to know is altered, deformed by our very "encheiresis naturae," by the act of our taking-in-hand of nature (to borrow the alchemists' phrase from Goethe's Faust). Kenny Smith
truth philosophy perception
Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities.
truth past telling-the-truth
Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present. Ken Loach
truth long may
Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours. Margaret Bourke-White
truth-is heresy shocking
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy. Margaret Deland
truth use truth-is
Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use. Mark Twain
truth alive truth-is
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time....
truth sarcasm journalism
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
truth way strict
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
truth heard has-beens
There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?
truth fiction stranger
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
truth real gentleman
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
truth honesty memories
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
truth truth-is homely
Homely truth is unpalatable.