What Is Truth Quotes

The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Donald Trump is going to speak the truth to the American people.

Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

The truth is undeniable. You tell somebody the truth, it's undeniable.

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he’s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.

Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

The higher the truth, the simpler it is.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

The truth is to be lived, not just mouthed.

The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.