What Is Truth Quotes
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.
Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.
The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.
But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.
It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
Whatever may be the experience in everyday life, the basci inner Truth should not be forgotten.
Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.
The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.
The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.
I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?
I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.
The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.
I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.
Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.
If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.
A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.
Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.
To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.
Men and women really do want the same things. We just need each other to bring it out. That's really the truth of the matter.
Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.
In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.
Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.
One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.
To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.
The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.