What Is Truth Quotes

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

To me the truth comes first and then the literature. We in China are dealing with a dictatorial system and we writers have to take a stance on it.

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair.

Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.

Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew that I certainly was.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

Truth usually stammers at first.

We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

Disillusionment is not truth.

Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!

My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.

I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.

This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most impeccable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known... just- didn't- have it.