What Is Truth Quotes

Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to it by misleading others about its presence.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Love is the ultimate revelation, the final sanctuary.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me.

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

What is not in nature can never be true.

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.

Our lives improve only when we take chances.

Friendship is more important than truth.

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Real friends tell you the truth...even when you want them to shut up.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.