What Is Truth Quotes
The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely.
Keeping the truth from the people closest to you is how you'll survive, and how you'll protect them if anything ever goes wrong.
Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.
In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.
To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.
Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness.
It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.
There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.
While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?
The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.
I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.
Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.
Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.
There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.
If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them.
Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.