The Will To Truth Quotes

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

We have 50,000 moments of truth every day.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare word.

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.

The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

Popularity has a bright side, it unlocks many doors. But the truth is that I don't like it very much because it changes the private life into a very small thing.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.