What Is Truth Quotes

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.

How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...

The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

To think what you want to think is to think truth, regardless of appearances.

Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now is illumined by the spirit's light.

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

Facts do not constitute truth.

The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.

In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.

Artists also have the responsibility of reflecting the truth.

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain