The Truth Quotes
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.
It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!
In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.
How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.
The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives.
Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.
Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths.
If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.
...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.
Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.
The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.
The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of the truth.
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.
