The Will To Truth Quotes
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can’t accept the truth of each other.
I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.
I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.
What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.
So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.
Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.
From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth
A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.
As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.
They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
