The Will To Truth Quotes

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

Those who love the Gospel will love to be stirred by its truth all over again.

The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.

The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Silence is the mother of truth.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

The truth will make you odd.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

The color of truth is gray.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.

What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.

By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give.

Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.