What Is Truth Quotes

The truth taught by Jesus Christ is the right way to live.

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.

The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.

In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

The truth within moves as intimacy of being.

You simply cannot trust or refer to your experience of your self to tell you what you are, to tell you the truth within.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.

You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.

From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.

In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director

Truth defies simplicity.

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

Truth resists simplicity.

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

Love is tied to truth.

We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.

Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case.

All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

Justice and truth are the common ties of society

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.