Quotes about truth
truth way observation
The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation. Barry Long
truth believe helping
You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.
truth mind littles
It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.
truth-is interruptions regard
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life. C. S. Lewis
truth views answers
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.
truth may there-comes-a-time
In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told. Al Gore
truth sick intellectual
Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness. Charles Kingsley
truth heart wicked
Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.
truth sake virtue
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
truth dumb letters
Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb. Charles Churchill
truth lying believe
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
truth-is foe
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe. Aristophanes
truth passion men
Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true. Antonio Machado
truth long lasts
My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine. Antonio Porchia
truth quintessence has-beens
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. Brooks Atkinson
truth reality fiction
As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event. Brock Yates
truth lying indebted
Truth never was indebted to a lie Edward Young
truth imagination lag
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. Edmund Burke
truth exercise men
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.
truth mean understanding
The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point. Eckhart Tolle
truth-is stillness-speaks
The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.
truthful being-truthful credible
To be credible we must be truthful. Edward R. Murrow
truth sorry knowing-who-you-are
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
truth honesty integrity
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
truth communication literature
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
truth lying simple
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
truth ordinary affair
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion. E. W. Howe
truth
The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten. Joel Salatin
truth
Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.
truth
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. Elizabeth Bowen
truth mind denial
There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born. Albert Camus
truth believe men
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
truth firsts
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.