Quotes about truth
truth firsts
Truth usually stammers at first. Mason Cooley
truth want bathroom
Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.
truth philosophy philosophical
The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.
truth lying silent
Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.
truth lying telling-the-truth
Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.
truth ifs unwelcome
If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths.
truth lying hard
It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.
truth half half-truth
Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
truth dangerous
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous. Mencius
truth errors relation
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. Michel Foucault
truth liars writing
There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates. Marie Corelli
truth lying trying
What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
truth science hunting
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. Marie Curie
truth experience firsts
The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
truth errors truth-is
Many a truth is the result of an error.
truth reality tears
No matter how bad the truth is, it doesn't tear you apart inside like dishonesty. Teri Garr
truth sides ease
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. Theodore Parker
truth home doors
Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.
truth honesty men
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. Theodore Roosevelt
truth whole
The whole is the false. Theodor Adorno
truth food beer
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer? Terry Pratchett
truth believe world
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. Margaret Mead
truth giving illusion
Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion. Margaret Fuller
truth jewels firsts
Truth is the first of jewels.
truth honesty people
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. Kin Hubbard
truth thinking knowing-god
You cannot know God until you've stopped telling yourself that you already know God. You cannot hear God until you stop thinking that you've already heard God. I cannot tell you My Truth until you stop telling Me yours. Neale Donald Walsch
truth-is
Truth is created, not discover!
truth sides annoying
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.
truth journey where-you-are
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.
truth past data
... negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others. You will not find Truth in your past data, only past data that is based on other past data that is based on other past data, and so forth. Forget your "past experience" and look directly at the experience you are having. Right Here, Right Now. There is your Truth.
truth telling-the-truth knows
Tell the truth as soon as you know it.
truth familiar truest
The most familiar precepts are not always the truest. Marcel Proust
truth ideas giving
We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.