What Is Truth Quotes

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.

Perjury is often bold and open. It is truth that is shamefaced - as, indeed, in many cases is no more than decent.

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

It is easier to know the truth than to seek the truth.

Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Neither when we have chosen our way can we keep company with those who go the other way. There must come with the decision for truth a corresponding protest against error.

To preach the gospel is to stae every doctrine contained in God's word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

All truth contains an echo of sadness.

The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

In order for us and our families to withstand the pressures of the world, we must be filled with light and gospel truth.

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.

It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.

If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore

That is the voice of God because its the voice of truth and experience.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.

That's absolutely the truth, and that is exactly what the Pleiadians say, that we are going through what we would have done after we left the planet and remembered.

There’s only truth and not truth. You’re either very good or evil.

I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don't expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.

Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth.

It cannot bring back and make whole those who suffered and died by a racist's criminal hand. But it can at least reaffirm our nation's commitment to seek the truth and make equal justice a reality.

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.

The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

I think [Newt] Gingrich who's been the - among the truth tellers to [Donald] Trump, I think, in public, take a listen.

It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth