Quotes about truth
truth games towns
In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town. Richard John Neuhaus
truth pursuit-of-happiness turns
As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive. Richard Hofstadter
truth conformity sometimes
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not. Robert M. Pirsig
truth simple rationality
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
truth real thinking
I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned perhaps into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was 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.
truth science discovery
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
truth enemy weapons
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. Robert Louis Stevenson
truth poetic great-poet
After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
truth letters spirit
Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.
truth church bombs
The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church. Robert Farrar Capon
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.
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.
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.
truth believe evil-people
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
truth cherish
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
truth men all-time
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
truth receipts infallible
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
truth affection martyrdom
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
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.
truth integrity character
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
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.
truth solitude care
How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.
truth lying men
Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.
truth wall men
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.
truth lying ideas
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
truth men self
I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.