The Will To Truth Quotes
People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.
Because of this ever increasing discernment of the true Mason he/she will find more efficient ways to apply brotherly love, relief and truth.
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.
I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.
Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.
What you say should not just be truth now, but should be a proven truth tomorrow.
There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.
This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.
More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.
Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.
Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.
The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.
Worship...is evoked by Christ, through the Spirit, in such a way that He is the One who acts in us and through us, so that our worship becomes real worship in Spirit and in Truth.
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.
In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.
I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic.
I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial, but if ever I should, it will be then known how far I can reduce to practice, principles, which I know to be founded in truth.
Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.
It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.
Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.