What Is Truth Quotes
The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.
It's very disconcerting to start out and to say, "I'm going to tell the truth," and then to realize it's that much trouble.
I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.
Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
What is happiness to me is not necessarily for you. Someone once said, there are three truths: your truth, my truth and the truth. And I think that's true.
Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.
People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.
One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.
We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.
Of course there's objective truth, but when we're looking at people's accounts of it, it seems the real truth lies in the accretion of all these different versions.
The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
Nowadays, people have a habit of relativizing religion, reducing it to "your truth" versus "my truth" versus "their truth," and that's the end of it.
I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.
One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.
If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.
