The Truth Quotes

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.

I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel safe to speak the truth of their lives.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

As a writer, I have always considered it my job to describe the world as I know it; to struggle toward whatever portion of the truth is available to me.

A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

Veracity is the heart of morality.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

Fill your mind with truth; fill your heart with love; fill your life with service.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.

Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

The truth is, homes change over time — and technology has to adapt, not try to do everything at once.

Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.

There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

I really like individualism based on truth.

It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and much of our pleasure.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T.

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.