The Will To Truth Quotes
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A President who's not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.
If you are going to stick to the truth then you need to keep your distance from the Chinese government and indeed to any form of politics, including the politics of democratic countries.
If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.
The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little.
As sick as it sounds, a reality show might help, actually. At least then people could get the truth.
A lot of comics just joke around, but it's just as important to get the truth out there.
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.
The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.
Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.
The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.
And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!
I read it plain on his face, an implacable determination to get at the truth. C.B. Greenfield had mounted his mental charger, and he had a second horse waiting for me.
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
