The Will To Truth Quotes

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

I would like to say that I helped out our men in uniform, but the truth is I probably just grumbled at the noise.

Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

It was real for me and that's all that matters.

Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

What is truth? I think stating a truth could be dangerous, because we are locking something in and therefore making it harder for ourselves to change beyond that certain thought or concept.

If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to look.

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

The truth will only be told over a career.

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.