What Is Truth Quotes

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.

Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth

Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them.

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.

In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.

Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

Christ died for the truth.

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its ability to speak anything but the truth.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.