The Will To Truth Quotes

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?

All I have is an opinion - I don't deal in Truth.

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Sacrifice life to truth.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

Bones smiled. “Oh, grand. Going to make me beat the truth out of you? My favorite way to work.

nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

I feel a responsibility to get the truth out into the world.

We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

If ever there was a proverbial truth, it's the more you give, the more you get. Give and start experiencing a life of fulfillment!

It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth.

The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction - one example of a "truth" found in religion's quest for truth.

If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth.

The truth is, the family is much more creatively nourishing because you're playing on a full keyboard. Whereas when you're single, you're just playing the upbeat jazzy tunes.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.

The truth is that an intellectual life is available to almost anyone, almost anywhere, if they work hard enough and are given some kind of access point.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

Most people would assume, as I do, that the courtroom is a place for the truth, but it's not with our corrupt judges today - and I'm talking about the corrupt ones on the court of appeals.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Always ask for the truth. Just make sure the time is right.

If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.

The truth is that you are as unique on the inside as you are on the outside.

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.

FEAR IS A REACTION YOU HAVE WHEN YOU’RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH

The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.