The Will To Truth Quotes
You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.
Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot harm.
Today's devices blurt out the absolute truth as they know it. A smart device in the future might know when NOT to blurt out the truth.
The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated.
The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.
If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.
In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.
Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.
The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.
It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.
I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.
Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.
I think the most important thing I learned from my dad is the importance of telling the truth...treat other people well, work hard at the job and tell the truth.
The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.
I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.
An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.
The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.
It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.
I am still learning and experiencing things and feel like I cannot state a truth. So I guess one truth I know for sure is that I cannot state one. A paradox.
Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?
The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for one’s view of the nature and destiny of man.
Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth.
To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth