What Is Truth Quotes

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

Talent is truth on display.

I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.

The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.

Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.

One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.

He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

The genuine essence of truth never dies.

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth.

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical.

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.

The truth is, I don't really have a type of girl.

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.