The Will To Truth Quotes

One must love the mirror in the face of truth, only if one loves the outlook of your inner compassion.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—

Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some... The truth of Christ's death, resurrection and power over sin is absolute.

I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

Now i'd like to tell u i did something heroic like stand up against a raging team of fire-breathing horses with only my sword the truth is i ran.

Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.

There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.

You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.

I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.

The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.

I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.

I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

Truth never hurt the teller.

Our goal is to give all Americans front-door access to the truth.

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.

The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

I ask God in spirit and in truth 'what are we?'. It's the questions first.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.