The Will To Truth Quotes

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

Nobody quite knows the truth about cats purring, but it does seem to be also a self-healing thing for them, which is why, when you take your cat to the vet and it's frightened, it will purr.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

As you get older, life gets harder if you're not applying spiritual truths.

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

Our challenge is to not look away, but rather to transform the field; to create a new political conversation, our own conversation, out of which we can speak our truth in our own way.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.

The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.

In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

The truth is not so good a story.

But this is my truth; I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay.

I work out every day, and I eat 1,200 calories. Heres the truth - like Ive said to everybody, Every diet works if you follow the diet.

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

God’s truth is this: abortion is murder.

But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.

It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path

Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.