The Will To Truth Quotes

From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth.

To add to truth distracts from it.

I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.

If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.

To realize truth, you must cross all boundaries of all religions and all prophets

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

You don't just turn off your feelings for someone, and that's a very hard, sad truth for people. When you're drawn to someone, even if they're not good for you, you feel connected. In a lot of ways.

The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.

Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.

Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

I couldn't have asked for a better kid. She's our own little Buddha baby so far. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop to tell you the truth. It's like the calm before the storm.

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.