What Is Truth Quotes

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]

'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

For truth there is no deadline.

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.

Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

And as I stood there in the hallway―alone―trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn't worth an explanation―not even a reaction. Not in your eyes.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.

If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

If you look deep inside trust, you'll find truth.

The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

The observer is the observed.

Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

If you live your life in truth, the truth will out.

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

The truth is, when you're at the track, it was an interesting thing about stock car racing as a sport, is you almost get more out of it watching it on TV.