My Truth Quotes

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

The way to stop political correctness is to not do it. If someone says, You offended me then you say I don't care! If they're offended by the truth, that's their issue!

No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

No truth could ever fear me.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one. [Sp., Yo, senor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarian motivos para serlo.]

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.

Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

The search for truth begins in your heart.

Sometimes you have to lie to tell the truth.

You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?

Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.

Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

Truth is not private property.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind.

Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.