What Is Truth Quotes
Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.
The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.
The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.
To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.
It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.
A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.
No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.
Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven.
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.
If there is any truth to reincarnation, this must be my first trip through, 'cause I don't recognize anything.
My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.
It is a great truth, " God reigns," and therefore grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord; and, therefore, no sinner on earth need ever despair.
There is no reason to believe that the Holy Spirit ever leaves awakened sinners, only as they leave the truth of God for some error or sin.
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.
It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.
He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.
It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.
I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.
The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.
When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.
The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
