The Truth Quotes

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.

Conquer a liar with truth.

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.

From within, from the very most interior center of existence and consciousness, the fact of oneness evermore proves to be the overriding truth.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.

I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

I keep reading between the lies.

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

I believe every day when I wake up and go to bed and during my dreaming time there's some moment of truth that's in front of me that will always be in front of me until the end of days.

The only truth I know is my own.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

Jesus says, "Keep your heart on the kingdom first. Keep your heart on God's love. Keep focused on the fact that you are God's beloved daughter or son. That's the truth of who you are.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?

Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.