What Is Truth Quotes

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.

The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires is narrow; set foot on it, and you see brambles and mire before you.

The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way.

Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

There can be no mercy without truth.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.

Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.

All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small

No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man’s personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing… what was always inside his head.

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

The truth was much more beautiful.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

Whenever I look at me, all i see are things I'd like to change. Whenever Damon looks at me, all he sees is a glorious gift from the universe somewhere in the middle lies the truth.

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

Om (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions.

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.