Quotes about truth
truth lying honor
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. Richard M. Nixon
truth-is get-away
Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with. Richard Rorty
truthful i-can
I can be glib and truthful all at once. Richard Russo
truthful
There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful. Robert Duvall
truth reality way
There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything. Robert De Niro
truth deeds known
When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds. Roger Scruton
truth elephants secret
With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not. Sara Gruen
truth lying world
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. Samuel Johnson
truth reputation life-is
Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought. Samuel Johnson
truth may strange
Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true. Samuel Johnson
truth choices
Truth allows no choice. Samuel Johnson
truth men parent
Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency. Samuel Johnson
truth hiking lakes
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. Wallace Stevens
truth insane littles
We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession. Wallace Stevens
truth reality television
She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set. William Holden
truth certain agree
One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right. Washington Irving
truth errors myth
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. Walter Lippmann
truth truth-is grows
We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change. Walter Lippmann
truth honesty simple
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. Walter Lippmann
truth fruit ripe
Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe. Voltaire
truth religion atheism
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. Voltaire
truth believe evil-people
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. Voltaire
truth cherish
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it. Voltaire
truth men all-time
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. Voltaire
truth receipts infallible
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted. Voltaire
truth affection martyrdom
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. Voltaire
truth dangerous-world power-of-love
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. William Sloane Coffin
truth heroic embrace
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine. William Lloyd Garrison
truth justice retreat
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. William Lloyd Garrison
truth integrity character
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? William Lloyd Garrison
truth earth crushed
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again. William C. Bryant
truth war thinking
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. William Butler Yeats
truth men knows
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. William Butler Yeats