The Will To Truth Quotes
So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.
Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.
I'm always telling my students that the weirdest thing is the truth. I mean, the fact that we get up in the morning and put on clothes is weird.
When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.
While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.
It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always-always-makes itself known.
I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect.
There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.
The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.
We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a right to think freely.
