The Truth Quotes
Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!
We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.
Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.
I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.
Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.
Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.
Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined
I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.
A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are...well, just reverse it!
Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.
When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you.
For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.
Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.
Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.
Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice.
A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.
Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.
You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.