What Is Truth Quotes

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

I am relieved. May I now have the truth?

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.

We learn from the Gospel that when they asked Jesus what the truth was, he did not reply.

It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it

Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.

Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.

Men like to chase and you have to let us chase you. I know. It's insulting. It's frustrating. It's unfortunately the truth.

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.

Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth.

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.

Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.

The question is, "Are you spiritual or are you not?" The truth is you are. The reality is you don't believe it

Life is a lie if you do not find the eternal truth.

You want this so badly—this second chance, this chance at real redemption—that you can’t see the truth.

And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion