The Will To Truth Quotes

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing.

Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

The truth has no temperature.

When you have confidence, when you feel loved by people, you can tell them the truth. It's important that I can say the photo isn't beautiful or the photo shoot sucks.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything and to give a fair hearing to everything?

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

*Oh, I know I could say were through And tell myself I'm over you But even if I made a vow I promise not to miss you now And try to hide the truth inside I fell cause I, I just can't live a lie *

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter.

Wikipedia works because those who know the truth are usually more numerous and committed than those who believe in a falsehood.

The best lies are based on the truth, at least in part

It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning

To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.

Truth is brighter than Light Falsehood darker than night Revenge is keener than Axe and Love is softer than melting wax

Now that you know the truth, you can never go back.

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.

Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.

I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

If you got the truth, you put it out there, and everybody says, "Oh, my God. That's me." And then they improvise also. They take off, as well.

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.

I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.