The Will To Truth Quotes

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.

Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God’s grace in truth and charity. This is my confidence, this is my joy.

I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to know the truth.

True religion is the realization of truth.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.

Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

​Live the truth and everything else will fall into place.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.

Your truth will increase as you know listen to the truth of others

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.

Preaching is truth through personality.

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Some people are scared to tell the truth, but I'm going to tell you the Good, the bad, the ugly," it's like, "Let's go there. Let's talk about it."

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?