The Will To Truth Quotes

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.

God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths- the truth of God's eternal judgment, and the truth of His eternal love.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

The sad truth is the truth is sad.

Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.

Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

It feels so good to tell the truth.

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

The truth is never pretty.

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.

The whole time we're traveling the world. You really mature. You're not just learning truth. The truth is changing you and maturing you.

Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

Art is lies that tell the truth.

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

Truth is its own reward.

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

Truth is truth! It is not divisible, and any part of it cannot be set aside.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.