What Is Truth Quotes
Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .
And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.
I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.
Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.
Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.
it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.
When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.
Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.
For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.
Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state
Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
Hearing alone is less effective in learning God's truth than hearing combined with reading.
Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned for the spiritual health of people but open to your own rebukes from your mighty Word.
The claims of Christ are always on trial, and we remain under oath! We are his witnesses for truth.
Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.
My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.
I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.
And the truth is, I’d felt kind of a thrill about wearing Jason’s Big Boy pants. I was a sick kid, even way back then.
