The Truth Quotes

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.

No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.

The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

Of course now we know that couldn't be further from the truth, that the subjects that keep young people's options open and unlock doors to all sorts of careers are the Stem subjects.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

There is a deep power in words that speak the truth

Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.

Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.

Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.

I'm not searching for the truth.That's too much pressure .

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.

In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

All things reflect the divine energy of nature—every flower, every rock, every sound, every sight. Once we realize that truth, we cannot help but smile.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament.

A credible witness to truth and to the values of the Gospel is urgently needed.

Jesus is more than a friend. He is a teacher of truth and life who shows us the way that leads to happiness.

Communications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty.

I am always going to be true to myself.

You don't know what you can do until you try.

Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free.

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.