The Will To Truth Quotes

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

I don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing.

The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.

I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth.

The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

The best thing you can give is God consciousness. Manifest your own divinity first. The truth is there. It's right within us all. Understand what you are.

You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion.

Truth and oyle are ever above. [Truth and oil are ever above.]

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?

All truths are not to be told.

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.

The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.

Never break faith with the truth.

Nothing can be further than the truth.

What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth are never separable in Catholic pastoral life.

Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.