What Is Truth Quotes

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, but the truth is you just never thought you’d ever lose it.

Truth suffers, but never dies.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

This is the pathless path. Where the journey leads is to the deepest truth in you. It is really just returning to where you were initially before you got lost.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.

The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

He buries gold who hides the truth.

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another.

The language of truth is simple.

The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.

There are tears that shine like a smile, sobbing like a sunrise for the truth.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.

What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.