What Is Truth Quotes

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

There is only truth to be found - no lies, no shams, no illusions, no hypocrisy. Just a truthful place, where all beings are governed by a set of perfect laws that have never changed and never will.

He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

As we give the gifts of compassion and humility, our lives become demonstrations of the truth of God's Word.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

Science is but an image of the truth.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

Truth is always a delusion.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

Finally all that is trustworthy is this immeasurable silent awareness that is the truth of who you are, that is love.

The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything.

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

See the truth, and you will see me.

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

Your truth should be so pure that if lifts a person's soul to the heights.

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.