The Will To Truth Quotes

... the final judge was truth -- immortal.

Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

That which the truth nourishes should thrive.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.

Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.

The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets

The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.

Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.

One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.

In truth, most of us don't know our cats.

I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.

I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.

You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.

Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth.

When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.

I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room

Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.

Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life.

The truth is I have had, for whatever reason, several movie-star boyfriends.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.

It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.

Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion , a truth , a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

The industry doesn't want you to know the truth about what you're eating, because if you knew, you might not want to eat it.

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.