What Is Truth Quotes

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

Not everything that's true needs to be said.

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

How do we make people's lives better unless we find the truth of what works and what doesn't?

Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

Don't go for happiness, go for truth!

[Y]ou cannot determine either the truth or the right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions.