The Will To Truth Quotes

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.

You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens.

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an empty space Between truth and falsehood.

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth.

Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE.

It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

A truth does not become greater by repetition.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.