The Will To Truth Quotes
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.
The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.
Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.
Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.
The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.
The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.
Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
When we move beyond information toward transformation, we savor the truth of seeking to do life "under the Word" as the ancients have taught.
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.
I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.
Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.
Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.
Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.
Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.
By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.
But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.
The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.
Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.
