What Is Truth Quotes

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

A person can perhaps trust his eyes only to the amount of truth his heart does not mind to speak openly to the people to touch their souls in this selfish world full of lies.

The truth is that perhaps everything has a price, but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies.

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?

Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.

The truth doesn't only excist of what you see.

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

Pursue truth and people will be true to you.

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

I have just discovered the truth, and can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it.

History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth.

I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

Finding out the truth doesn't always work out for the best!

There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better.

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.

I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others.

The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.

The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.

Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.

There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.

The truth of the matter is that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community.

I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.