What Is Truth Quotes

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.

I don't believe it is more important to move forward than to know the truth.

She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.

You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

[Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.

The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

It's really nice that the truth can finally come out.

The search for the truth is not for the faint-hearted.

[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he who is hasty falls back in the interests of God.

I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful.

You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.

O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture Of Thee, the Living Word.

There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth

Whatever truth you contribute to the world will be one lucky shot in a thousand misses. You cannot be right by holding your breath and taking precautions.

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

To truth there is no error. To life there is no death.

Truth is inner harmony.

The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.

If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.

Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

Only as they cease to seek anything by themselves and only as they take the position of the teachable shall they be taught by the Spirit truth which they are able to digest.