The Truth Quotes

We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

I will always be interested in the truth, yeah.

In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.

But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save.

There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

Never water down or minimise the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.

I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.

If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.

Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.

If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

I tend to be reasonably blunt, maybe a little bit too much. But I just- I always respected people that tell the truth. And I've always wanted people to tell me the truth.

The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven, The power, which in a sense belongs to none, Thus understood belongs to every one.

To seek Truth is to deny Truth to being with. To seek Truth is to avoid Truth, constantly.

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.

The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.