The Will To Truth Quotes

Let us make sure that the worship services we plan and conduct present that Truth in all its clarity and beauty and goodness.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels of truth.

Lift your head up high, and scream to the world. I know I am someone, and let the truth unfurl.

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth.

For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.

The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.

A principle is a truth that is established by God that can never be changed.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.

I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.

In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.

Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.

Truth had me up against the ropes And semi-conscious without no boxing skills.

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

Errors are many, truth is unique.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.