The Will To Truth Quotes

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.

The truth is supposed to hurt. That's how it lets you know you don't got it.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

The truth is, the Universe will always take care of you.

I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.

Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.

Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a Way as gives us breath: Such a Truth as ends all strife: Such a Life as killeth death.

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden.

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.

If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

Truth is no road to fortune.

Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

Let there be truth between us.

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

Truth is never negative. Only one's perception of it is.

The real truths are those that can be invented.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

Tell the truth... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.