What Is Truth Quotes
If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.
Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.
What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.
If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.
From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.
The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.
To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.
Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
You are your own highest authority. Do not place your source of authority outside of you. Go within to see if the truth you've found is in harmony with the truth you find in your heart.
The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.
But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.
When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.
"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.
Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.
As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.
If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?
It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.
Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you
"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."
I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
