The Truth Quotes

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love confessed.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.

Evidence exhausts the truth.

If you fall, the truth will set you free. And when your heart can see just one thing in this life, we'll set out on the journey.

An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.

[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.

Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us.

the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies and laying bare the truth.

Life is a lie if truth is not found. Truth is just an idea if it is not lived. It is living that matters.

The experiences of life teach truth.

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.