What Is Truth Quotes

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

If you want truth you should begin by giving it.

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me.

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.

I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.

Clear declaration of truth makes a difference in people's lives. That is what changes hearts. That is what the Holy Ghost can confirm in the hearts of God's children.

Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.

The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.

This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

I know no diplomacy save that of truth.

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.

I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.

People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.

The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society - warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.

Preaching Christ's truth always bears fruit. Of course, some people will probably end up wanting to throw that fruit at you.

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

What you believe to be the truth directly determines your attitude towards yourself and the world, the words you say and the actions you take.