What Is Truth Quotes

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.

It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

I'd lie for you and that's the truth.

I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

If you are after truth, leave your cave!

You have always been deciding the truth of your life. It is how you decide to feel about it. There is no need to try to work out what something means. You decide what it means.

Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them.

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

Your good is happening right now, even as you accept this statement of truth.

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.

The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.

I'm always working in this universe - whether picturing hamburger joints, Virgin Marys, domestic scenes - using these "vacant-faced" women as a medium to question universal truths.

Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.

Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera.

Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that.

I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.

You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which was religion.

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.

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The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.

Say things to the world that are true.