The Truth Quotes
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.
The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.
People are always going to say stuff about you and there are always going to be crazy rumours out there, but as long as you know the truth, you're fine.
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.
It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.
To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.
hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.
The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.