What Is Truth Quotes

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

When awareness believes what it knows is true, the truth of what awareness really is, moves. That movement is love.

Your self doesn't represent the truth in you, your being does. Give your ease only to what you know represents the truth in you.

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.

Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds.

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

This is truth the poet sings . . .

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.

Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.

The strength of a story is the truth you find in it.

I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.

The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of all, as well as the material wealth of some.

...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

Some people are antagonized by the truth.