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Thomas Jefferson | Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. | 69 |
Deepak Chopra | Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. | 101 |
Eminem | The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. | 101 |
Frank Ocean | There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. | 101 |
Gottfried Leibniz | When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. | 101 |
Henry A. Wallace | The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. | 101 |
Vladimir Lenin | A lie told often enough becomes the truth. | 101 |
Iris Murdoch | We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. | 101 |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery | It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. | 101 |
David Icke | Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. | 101 |
Michael Jackson | Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. | 101 |
Ravi Zacharias | Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive. | 101 |
Theodor Adorno | The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition. | 101 |
Ada Lovelace | The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. | 101 |
Alveda King | Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. | 101 |
Anne Hutchinson | One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth. | 101 |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. | 101 |
Athol Fugard | You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth. | 101 |
Barbra Streisand | I can take any truth; just don't lie to me. | 101 |
Carol Gilligan | In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection. | 101 |
Charles Stanley | Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. | 101 |
David Suzuki | The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels. | 101 |
Debbie Ford | To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source. | 101 |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. | 101 |
Feisal Abdul Rauf | The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth. | 101 |
Felicity Huffman | The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. | 101 |
Ferdinand de Saussure | Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. | 101 |
Frances Wright | If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. | 101 |
Frank Luntz | A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. | 101 |
Georges Braque | Truth exists; only lies are invented. | 101 |
Helen Thomas | We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers. | 101 |
Hypatia | Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. | 101 |
Ismail Haniyeh | Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. | 101 |
Jean-Claude Van Damme | Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people. | 101 |
Jules Verne | Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. | 101 |
Kelly Miller | I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. | 101 |
Kevin O'Leary | I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth. | 101 |
Liberty Ross | The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear. | 101 |
Louis Aragon | Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. | 101 |
Lucy Stone | Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things. | 101 |
Mason Cooley | Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love. | 101 |
Max Planck | A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. | 101 |
Nancy Grace | I think the truth is black-and-white. | 101 |
Pope Benedict XVI | The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy. | 101 |
Stella Adler | The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. | 101 |
Tamsin Greig | I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing. | 101 |
Tom Hanks | Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. | 101 |
Wole Soyinka | Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation. | 101 |
Yanis Varoufakis | Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth. | 101 |
Yukio Mishima | By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. | 101 |
Albert Brooks | What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now. | 101 |
Avigdor Lieberman | People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it. | 101 |
Bobby Darin | Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. | 101 |
Carol Ann Duffy | Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. | 101 |
Charles Jencks | Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. | 101 |
Christopher Fry | Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. | 101 |
David Kay | The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here. | 101 |
David Rakoff | Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway. | 101 |
Ed Rendell | I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up. | 101 |
Gerrit Smith | Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. | 101 |
Grace Gealey | I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts. | 101 |
Harold Ford, Jr. | I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth. | 101 |
Harri Holkeri | If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing. | 101 |
Howard E. Wasdin | People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness. | 101 |
I. F. Stone | Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. | 101 |
Jean-Luc Godard | Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. | 101 |
John Shelby Spong | All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. | 101 |
Keri Hilson | We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth. | 101 |
Laura Esquivel | I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects. | 101 |
Lillian Hellman | Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. | 101 |
Marcia Angell | The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve. | 101 |
Martin Henderson | I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it. | 101 |
Michael Eric Dyson | I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence. | 101 |
Nick Turse | You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact. | 101 |
Peter Abelard | By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth. | 101 |
Scott Bakula | You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you. | 101 |
Todd Solondz | I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation. | 101 |
William Shenstone | A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. | 101 |
Aaron Koblin | The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original. | 101 |
Carl Bernstein | The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. | 101 |
Donna Tartt | Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life. | 101 |
Frank Norris | The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. | 101 |
Janis Ian | I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. | 101 |
John Mellencamp | Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth. | 101 |
John Travolta | So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth. | 101 |
Kelly Cutrone | I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all about female empowerment. There's a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There's a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It's OK to get real. | 101 |
Mary Astell | Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. | 101 |
Menachem Begin | Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. | 101 |
Michael Sheen | Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people. | 101 |
Nelson Goodman | Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. | 101 |
Nikolai Berdyaev | There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. | 101 |
Patrick Murray | A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. | 101 |
Ryan Eggold | I'm just a guy who wears TOMS. It's the sad truth. | 101 |
Tim Walker | Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth. | 101 |
William Hamilton | Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines. | 101 |
Aidan Turner | I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn't say I'm sceptical because that word implies the truth is out there when there is no truth out there. | 101 |
Alice Hoffman | I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them. | 101 |
Alija Izetbegovic | I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail. | 101 |
Ben Bradlee | You never monkey with the truth. | 101 |
Charley Reese | The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests. | 101 |
Gavid Hood | The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to. | 101 |
James Callaghan | A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. | 101 |
Jim Garrison | To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire. | 101 |
Katharine Anthony | The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? | 101 |
Liu Xiaobo | Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. | 101 |
Ted Demme | I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened. | 101 |
Trent Lott | A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement. | 101 |
Cal Thomas | One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. | 101 |
Corey Hart | 'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination. | 101 |
David Tang | I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I? | 101 |
Larry Gelbart | Most jokes state a bitter truth. | 101 |
Ludwig Borne | Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. | 101 |
Matt Berninger | The truth is, I'm pretty lighthearted. | 101 |
Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. | 101 |
Sharon Creech | Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old. | 101 |
A. B. Yehoshua | So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. | 101 |
Arnaud Desplechin | Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism. | 101 |
Benjamin Whichcote | The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth. | 101 |
Bernard Sahlins | Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things. | 101 |
Charles Peguy | He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. | 101 |
Claude Adrien Helvetius | Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. | 101 |
Corliss Lamont | The intuition of free will gives us the truth. | 101 |
John Abizaid | But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country. | 101 |
June Jordan | To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. | 101 |
Michael Musto | In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. | 101 |
Morarji Desai | It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must follow non-violent ways of life, otherwise he will not be able to reach the Truth. | 101 |
Roy Orbison | Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy. | 101 |
Anthony Hope | Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? | 101 |
Caterina Scorsone | It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.' | 101 |
Charles Bradlaugh | Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. | 101 |
James Ellroy | The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case. | 101 |
John Howard | Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. | 101 |
John Masefield | There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see. | 101 |
Jose Ramos-Horta | The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution. | 101 |
Justin Chadwick | My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances. | 101 |
Robert Menzies | It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. | 101 |
James Clavell | The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous. | 101 |
Alice Cary | There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth. | 101 |
Arthur Holly Compton | It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' | 101 |
Maria Weston Chapman | Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom. | 101 |
Michael Flanders | The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again! | 101 |
James Beattie | How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love. | 101 |
Jodie Evans | I feel truth, beauty, love, grief, anger, intimacy & alive in my body... Women in the global south live in their bodies much more than we in the global north. Not as distracted by patriarchy's controlling images - They know power is in their bodies. I am deeply grateful for the women who showed me the way home. | 101 |
Justin Chatwin | I trust you: That's huge. That's truth. That's real love. Everyone uses 'I love you' so loosely. | 101 |
James Hall | Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. | 101 |
Marcus Aurelius | Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. | 102 |
Charles Spurgeon | A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. | 102 |
Galileo Galilei | All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. | 102 |
Goldie Hawn | The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. | 102 |
Michelle Obama | We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. | 102 |
Vaclav Havel | When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete. | 102 |
Christopher Columbus | But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them. | 102 |
Mike Pence | Uh, do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them. The means that he used to do that, I can't say, but I do believe in that fundamental truth. | 102 |
Ravi Zacharias | When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold. | 102 |
Alfred Nobel | Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. | 102 |
Antoine Lavoisier | We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. | 102 |
Bo Bennett | For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. | 102 |
Cyrano de Bergerac | A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. | 102 |
Dan Rather | The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'. | 102 |
David Blaine | In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. | 102 |
DMX | The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's the thing about the truth. That's the thing about real. It doesn't change and it doesn't have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it's still real. It's still the truth. | 102 |
Dorothy L. Sayers | The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. | 102 |
Edward Albee | A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. | 102 |
Faith Hill | Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are. | 102 |
Francis Chan | Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions. | 102 |
Francis Spufford | For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need. | 102 |
George Michael | There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find. | 102 |
Graham Greene | Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. | 102 |
Helen Hayes | Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. | 102 |
Horace Mann | Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. | 102 |
iO Tillett Wright | All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves. | 102 |
James E. Faust | Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. | 102 |
Jeremy Clarkson | If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth. | 102 |
Laura Schlessinger | Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things. | 102 |
Laurence J. Peter | Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. | 102 |
Lindsay Wagner | Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself. | 102 |
Mel Brooks | Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. | 102 |
Mike Rowe | People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries. | 102 |
N. T. Wright | The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek. | 102 |
Nathan Lane | Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that. | 102 |
Noah Webster | No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. | 102 |
Pablo Neruda | The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. | 102 |
Paul Johnson | The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty. | 102 |
Peace Pilgrim | This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. | 102 |
Reza Aslan | The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew. | 102 |
Robert M. Pirsig | The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. | 102 |
Sam Harris | As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population. | 102 |
Stella Adler | The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. | 102 |
Tacitus | Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. | 102 |
Thomas Becket | Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. | 102 |
Tracey Emin | What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. | 102 |
Wallace Stevens | Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. | 102 |
Alan Cohen | Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. | 102 |
Bob Schieffer | The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy. | 102 |
Bruce Feirstein | To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife. | 102 |
Cindy Sheehan | I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. | 102 |
David Hare | Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. | 102 |
Deb Caletti | All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that. | 102 |
Duane Michals | The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art. | 102 |
Elmer Davis | This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error. | 102 |
Lee Atwater | My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything. | 102 |
Maajid Nawaz | The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims. | 102 |
Mary Todd Lincoln | Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. | 102 |
Miguel Syjuco | Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths. | 102 |
Paddy Considine | I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine. | 102 |
Peter Abelard | It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. | 102 |
Peter Guber | Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked. | 102 |
Tony Snow | To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes. | 102 |
William Tyndale | I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue. | 102 |
Adolf Loos | Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. | 102 |
Bernadette Peters | Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find. | 102 |
Dan Ariely | We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences. | 102 |
Donald Driver | You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don't have a friend who's going to tell you the truth every time something comes up, you feel like he's not a true friend. | 102 |
Frank Norris | Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. | 102 |
Gao Xingjian | It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. | 102 |
Hans Eysenck | I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. | 102 |
Harlan Howard | Country music is three chords and the truth. | 102 |
James Otis | It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own. | 102 |
Jeanette Winterson | I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. | 102 |
John Coltrane | I've always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn't have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think. | 102 |
John Green | One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. | 102 |
Marian Keyes | My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser. | 102 |
Prabal Gurung | There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs. | 102 |
Richie Sambora | There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth. | 102 |
Ronald Fisher | The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. | 102 |
Sam Rayburn | You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said. | 102 |
Terry Gross | I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. | 102 |
Adam Gopnik | There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores. | 102 |
Alice Hoffman | The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. | 102 |
Bruce Wilkinson | I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger. | 102 |
Eric Carr | I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. | 102 |
Gavid Hood | The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.' | 102 |
Marie de France | For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter. | 102 |
Randy Neugebauer | The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country. | 102 |
Ann McLane Kuster | The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions. | 102 |
Antonio Gramsci | To tell the truth is revolutionary. | 102 |
David Baldacci | Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it? | 102 |
Edmond Halley | Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. | 102 |
Jim Lehrer | There's always a germ of truth in just about everything. | 102 |
Ludwig Borne | Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. | 102 |
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk | My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. | 102 |
Sheri Fink | If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed. | 102 |
Amber Frey | When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing. | 102 |
Jennifer Morrison | If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news. | 102 |
Subcomandante Marcos | The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies. | 102 |
Camillo di Cavour | I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. | 102 |
J. Edgar Hoover | Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. | 102 |
Charles Taze Russell | To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction. | 102 |
Madeline Kahn | I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy. | 102 |
Albert Barnes | It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God. | 102 |
Anthony de Mello | It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! | 102 |
Max Born | The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. | 102 |
Bob Marley | Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. | 103 |
Elvis Presley | Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. | 103 |
Nikola Tesla | Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. | 103 |
Rabindranath Tagore | Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. | 103 |
Simone de Beauvoir | Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. | 103 |
John Keats | What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. | 103 |
Michael Jackson | It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie. | 103 |
Otto von Bismarck | When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. | 103 |
Ravi Zacharias | Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth. | 103 |
W. Clement Stone | Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. | 103 |
Arthur Conan Doyle | There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. | 103 |
Arthur Miller | Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. | 103 |
Barbara Kingsolver | The truth needs so little rehearsal. | 103 |
Barry White | I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. | 103 |
Bayard Rustin | To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. | 103 |
Boris Becker | An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy. | 103 |
Casey Neistat | Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to. | 103 |
Clarence Darrow | Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. | 103 |
Dogen | If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it? | 103 |
Don Miguel Ruiz | Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. | 103 |
Erwin Schrodinger | The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. | 103 |
George Berkeley | Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. | 103 |
George Gissing | Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. | 103 |
Giacomo Casanova | I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. | 103 |
Greg Anderson | The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That's the Law of Esprit: living life with joy. | 103 |
Gustave Flaubert | There is no truth. There is only perception. | 103 |
Jamaica Kincaid | I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite. | 103 |
James A. Garfield | The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. | 103 |
Jean Cocteau | The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. | 103 |
Kevin Spacey | It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth. | 103 |
Louis Kahn | Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. | 103 |
Lucretia Mott | We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. | 103 |
NeNe Leakes | Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest. | 103 |
Nick Hanauer | The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me. | 103 |
Orson Scott Card | Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. | 103 |
Pliny the Elder | Truth comes out in wine. | 103 |
Roy H. Williams | Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser. | 103 |
Tacitus | Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it. | 103 |
Tom Bodett | John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that. | 103 |
Vanessa Kerry | But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you. | 103 |
Vivek Wadhwa | The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise. | 103 |
Walter Cronkite | In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. | 103 |
Walter Savage Landor | Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. | 103 |
Xenophanes | No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so. | 103 |
Yann Arthus-Bertrand | There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear. | 103 |
Eliezer Yudkowsky | A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. | 103 |
Emile Zola | The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. | 103 |
Franz Marc | Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. | 103 |
Geoff Johns | The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities. | 103 |
Gloria Estefan | The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. | 103 |
James D. Watson | Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty. | 103 |
Jean Rostand | Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. | 103 |
Lillian Hellman | What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. | 103 |
Michael Ignatieff | Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. | 103 |
Pearl Bailey | You never find yourself until you face the truth. | 103 |
Peter Abelard | The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. | 103 |
Peter Tosh | To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. | 103 |
Scott Turow | The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical. | 103 |
Adolf Loos | Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side. | 103 |
Brian Grazer | You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth. | 103 |
John Cusack | When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. | 103 |
Miriam Makeba | Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that. | 103 |
James Howard Kunstler | Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to be more just and generous. The truth is, we've already been through that, and there is nothing left to do. We're out of 'affirmative actions' of all kinds. | 103 |
Moshe Safdie | He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. | 103 |
Pierre Bayle | The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. | 103 |
Regis Philbin | I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing. | 103 |
Armistead Maupin | I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it. | 103 |
Christopher McDougall | Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human is the biggest wimp in the wild. We have no fangs, no claws, no strength, and no speed. | 103 |
Jacques Prevert | When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today. | 103 |
John Boyega | Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth. | 103 |
Joseph Barber Lightfoot | Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure. | 103 |
Louis Agassiz | Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it. | 103 |
Martha Gellhorn | Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. | 103 |
Stephen LaBerge | From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. | 103 |
June Jordan | In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way. | 103 |
Roger Bacon | Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. | 103 |
Arthur Balfour | It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. | 103 |
Conor McGregor | The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it. | 104 |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. | 104 |
Leo Tolstoy | Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. | 104 |
Nicolaus Copernicus | So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. | 104 |
Aesop | A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. | 104 |
John Keats | 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. | 104 |
Abu Bakr | I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth. | 104 |
Albert Pike | The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. | 104 |
Barbara Kingsolver | Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. | 104 |
Bayard Rustin | War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed. | 104 |
Benjamin E. Mays | Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other. | 104 |
Benjamin Harrison | The bud of victory is always in the truth. | 104 |
Bikram Choudhury | Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care. | 104 |
Diane Ackerman | The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply. | 104 |
Donald Rumsfeld | The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it. | 104 |
Doris Lessing | I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. | 104 |
Edward Young | Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. | 104 |
Feisal Abdul Rauf | One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers. | 104 |
Friedrich Durrenmatt | Truth is always a delusion. | 104 |
Gerald R. Ford | Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time. | 104 |
Graham Greene | A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. | 104 |
Greg Graffin | I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification. | 104 |
H. Rap Brown | I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state. | 104 |
Hypatia | In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable. | 104 |
John Calvin | A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. | 104 |
Kevin Rudd | The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little. | 104 |
Lawrence Durrell | Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. | 104 |
Linus Pauling | Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality. | 104 |
Max Planck | A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. | 104 |
Mos Def | I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift. | 104 |
Nawal El Saadawi | To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth. | 104 |
Neale Donald Walsch | The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life. | 104 |
Pietro Aretino | I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. | 104 |
Ramakrishna | One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. | 104 |
Saint Patrick | No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God. | 104 |
Shakuntala Devi | Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. | 104 |
Thomas Huxley | Learn what is true in order to do what is right. | 104 |
Umberto Eco | I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. | 104 |
William Hague | Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. | 104 |
William Lloyd Garrison | I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. | 104 |
William Penn | Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. | 104 |
Yanni | Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds. | 104 |
Abbas Kiarostami | I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life. | 104 |
Abby Wambach | The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life. | 104 |
Alexis Carrel | A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. | 104 |
Ann Richards | We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day. | 104 |
Blake Mycoskie | People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina. | 104 |
Carlos Ruiz Zafon | Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond. | 104 |
Edmond de Goncourt | The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. | 104 |
Eugene Kennedy | The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history. | 104 |
Evan Williams | My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create the democratization of media in general, is that the more voices there are out there then the likelihood is that the truth bubbles up to the top. | 104 |
Henry Petroski | All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations. | 104 |
Jeffrey Kluger | It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm. | 104 |
Kenneth R. Miller | We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth. | 104 |
Natalie Goldberg | Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth. | 104 |
Richard Linklater | The truth will only be told over a career. | 104 |
Dorothy Thompson | There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. | 104 |
Krzysztof Kieslowski | To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work. | 104 |
Alison Krauss | The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall. | 104 |
Shana Alexander | The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. | 104 |
A. Philip Randolph | In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it. | 104 |
Arthur Rubinstein | Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go. | 104 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. | 105 |
Muhammad Ali | I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. | 105 |
Lord Byron | Adversity is the first path to truth. | 105 |
Phil McGraw | We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of. | 105 |
Virginia Woolf | If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. | 105 |
Brene Brown | The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. | 105 |
Chanakya | There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. | 105 |
William Osler | No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. | 105 |
Adlai E. Stevenson | If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. | 105 |
Amy Winehouse | There's no point in saying anything but the truth. | 105 |
Edith Stein | My longing for truth was a single prayer. | 105 |
Edward Albee | Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. | 105 |
Helen Thomas | Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth. | 105 |
Henri Matisse | Exactitude is not truth. | 105 |
Herman Melville | Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. | 105 |
Igor Stravinsky | I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. | 105 |
Lily Tomlin | If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? | 105 |
Lucian Freud | There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. | 105 |
LZ Granderson | The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids. | 105 |
Malcolm Muggeridge | One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. | 105 |
Marquis de Sade | Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. | 105 |
Newt Gingrich | The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. | 105 |
Phaedrus | Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. | 105 |
Russell Brand | People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth. | 105 |
Russell Peters | I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh. | 105 |
Saint Basil | Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. | 105 |
Shunryu Suzuki | Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. | 105 |
Sojourner Truth | Truth is powerful and it prevails. | 105 |
Sue Monk Kidd | I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart. | 105 |
Theodore Parker | Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold. | 105 |
Abbas Kiarostami | The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual. | 105 |
Andre Malraux | Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. | 105 |
Auguste Rodin | To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth. | 105 |
Bela Lugosi | I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds. | 105 |
Chris Christie | Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son. | 105 |
Craig Bruce | Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance. | 105 |
Dalton Trumbo | Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen. | 105 |
Gabriel Byrne | I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it. | 105 |
Kris Kristofferson | Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. | 105 |
Martin Jacques | If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it. | 105 |
Robert Capa | The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. | 105 |
Roland Barthes | What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. | 105 |
Sloane Crosley | It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate. | 105 |
Antisthenes | There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. | 105 |
Rem Koolhaas | We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. | 105 |
Arnold Bennett | There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. | 105 |
Buddha | Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. | 106 |
Ellen DeGeneres | I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules. | 106 |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. | 106 |
George Orwell | The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. | 106 |
Gottfried Leibniz | There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. | 106 |
Swami Vivekananda | Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. | 106 |
Angelina Jolie | The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. | 106 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. | 106 |
Alanis Morissette | A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. | 106 |
Arthur Conan Doyle | When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. | 106 |
Barbara Kingsolver | Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. | 106 |
Christina Rossetti | She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. | 106 |
Denis Diderot | We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. | 106 |
George McGovern | The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. | 106 |
Giordano Bruno | It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. | 106 |
Guy Finley | Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness. | 106 |
Hayley Williams | The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be. | 106 |
Henry Louis Gates | The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework? | 106 |
L. Ron Hubbard | A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal. | 106 |
Lana Turner | The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now. | 106 |
Louisa May Alcott | Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. | 106 |
Penn Jillette | The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty. | 106 |
Randy Pausch | You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest. | 106 |
Shakira | I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. | 106 |
Stephen Colbert | I deliver my Truth hot and hard. | 106 |
Steven Pinker | When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal. | 106 |
Ursula K. Le Guin | We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. | 106 |
Willa Cather | The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. | 106 |
Duane Michals | Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible? | 106 |
Elena Kagan | I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide. | 106 |
Hayley Hasselhoff | The plus size movement is not just about fashion; it's about body image, and if we're doing a shoot, they won't retouch us at all. That's the cool thing: there's no retouching at all because we want to give girls the truth, not a fabrication. | 106 |
Hosea Ballou | Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. | 106 |
Kim Il-sung | The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. | 106 |
Klaus Kinski | The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake. | 106 |
Lillian Hellman | Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. | 106 |
Mary Baker Eddy | Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. | 106 |
Minna Antrim | That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend. | 106 |
Stan Laurel | Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth. | 106 |
Ann Bancroft | For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise? | 106 |
Jane Velez-Mitchell | I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality. | 106 |
Arthur Schopenhauer | The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. | 107 |
Michel Foucault | Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. | 107 |
Hannah Arendt | The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. | 107 |
Johnny Depp | There's no truth anymore. | 107 |
Aneurin Bevan | This is my truth, tell me yours. | 107 |
Dennis Miller | Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again. | 107 |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer | God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. | 107 |
Eazy-E | Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth. | 107 |
Franz Liszt | Truth is a great flirt. | 107 |
Franz Schubert | You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. | 107 |
Gerard Way | I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share. | 107 |
Giordano Bruno | Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. | 107 |
Graham Greene | The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. | 107 |
Herman Melville | Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. | 107 |
Jean de La Fontaine | Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. | 107 |
Joseph Smith, Jr. | The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. | 107 |
Katherine Mansfield | Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. | 107 |
Kevin O'Leary | I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad. | 107 |
Kinky Friedman | I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors. | 107 |
Kris Carr | Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith. | 107 |
L. Lionel Kendrick | Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered. | 107 |
Logan Pearsall Smith | If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. | 107 |
Maimonides | You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes. | 107 |
Nate Silver | A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view. | 107 |
Padma Lakshmi | In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. | 107 |
Seamus Heaney | But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. | 107 |
Shunryu Suzuki | Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. | 107 |
Suze Orman | It wasn't until I stood in my truth and told everybody that I had $250,000 in credit card debt. At that point, everything turned around for me. I had to reveal the truth about what I didn't have, more than pretend about what I did. That was interesting. | 107 |
Two Chainz | I don't care what anybody else is wearing. I feel like they're all waiting to see what I have on. If you really want to know the truth, that's what I think. They're waiting to see what I'mma do next. | 107 |
Walter Benjamin | The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. | 107 |
Alan Cohen | You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. | 107 |
Brittany Murphy | I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism. | 107 |
Debi Mazar | I have lots of shoes, but I have to be comfortable. Lately, I've stolen my husband's big, ugly Uggs to wear around the kitchen. I want to have them on, then slide into a fabulous heel later. Truth is, I often forget the heel. | 107 |
Geri Halliwell | The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing. | 107 |
Josh McDowell | We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external. | 107 |
Anna Held | No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love. | 107 |
Jeanette Winterson | The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. | 107 |
John Ortberg | There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator. | 107 |
Jessica Valenti | The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself. | 107 |
J. M. Coetzee | The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself. | 107 |
David Bowie | The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. | 108 |
Isaac Newton | I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. | 108 |
Jim Morrison | Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. | 108 |
Malcolm X | I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. | 108 |
Norman Schwarzkopf | The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. | 108 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson | A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. | 108 |
Hannah Arendt | The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. | 108 |
Stephen King | Fiction is the truth inside the lie. | 108 |
Horatio Nelson | Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. | 108 |
Lewis Mumford | A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. | 108 |
Petrarch | Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. | 108 |
Peyton Manning | I guess, to tell you the truth, I've never had much of a desire to grow facial hair. I think I've managed to play quarterback just fine without a mustache. | 108 |
Roy H. Williams | Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two. | 108 |
Sylvester Stallone | I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. | 108 |
Will Self | In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality. | 108 |
Mother Jones | I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. | 108 |
Aldous Huxley | You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. | 109 |
Edward Snowden | All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. | 109 |
Isaac Newton | I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. | 109 |
Rene Descartes | If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. | 109 |
Abraham Maslow | Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. | 109 |
Benito Mussolini | The truth is that men are tired of liberty. | 109 |
Marilyn Manson | Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. | 109 |
Orson Welles | I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. | 109 |
Swami Sivananda | Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! | 109 |
W. Clement Stone | Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. | 109 |
Adlai E. Stevenson | I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. | 109 |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. | 109 |
Anne Sullivan | The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice. | 109 |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. | 109 |
Che Guevara | The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view. | 109 |
Chief Joseph | It does not require many words to speak the truth. | 109 |
Dan Rather | Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes. | 109 |
E. O. Wilson | The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? | 109 |
Henrik Ibsen | The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society. | 109 |
Idina Menzel | The truth is I love musical theater and always have. | 109 |
Jack Canfield | Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it. | 109 |
James Russell Lowell | Light is the symbol of truth. | 109 |
Louis Farrakhan | There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth. | 109 |
Naomi Campbell | I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth. | 109 |
Nikki Sixx | In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing. | 109 |
Ralph Ellison | There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. | 109 |
Samuel Butler | For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. | 109 |
Simone Weil | Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. | 109 |
Stephen Colbert | In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.' | 109 |
Tertullian | The first reaction to truth is hatred. | 109 |
Walter Lippmann | When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. | 109 |
Walter Scott | A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. | 109 |
Whitney Houston | My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it. | 109 |
Emile Zola | If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. | 109 |
Gary Hamel | Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor. | 109 |
James D. Watson | If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian. | 109 |
Jerome K. Jerome | It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. | 109 |
Jacques Lacan | Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously. | 109 |
Ayn Rand | The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. | 110 |
Pope Francis | An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them. | 110 |
James Madison | The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. | 110 |
Jane Austen | It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. | 110 |
Jane Goodall | Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around. | 110 |
Marie Curie | There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. | 110 |
Adlai E. Stevenson | Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came. | 110 |
Alfred Adler | Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. | 110 |
Andy Rooney | People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. | 110 |
Denis Diderot | Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. | 110 |
Frank A. Clark | Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. | 110 |
James Russell Lowell | Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. | 110 |
Joan of Arc | Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. | 110 |
Lech Walesa | The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. | 110 |
Margaret Fuller | Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. | 110 |
Max Weber | Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. | 110 |
Niels Bohr | There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. | 110 |
Robert H. Schuller | The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. | 110 |
Tom Waits | Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. | 110 |
Tommy Chong | Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say. | 110 |
Tracy Morgan | I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too. | 110 |
Vivien Leigh | Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show. | 110 |
Walter Lippmann | The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. | 110 |
Matthew Arnold | Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. | 110 |
Jean Giraudoux | There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. | 110 |
Blaise Pascal | Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. | 111 |
Carl Jung | Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. | 111 |
Elie Wiesel | Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. | 111 |
Swami Vivekananda | Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. | 111 |
Nicolaus Copernicus | I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. | 111 |
Jiddu Krishnamurti | Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices. | 111 |
Clarence Darrow | The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. | 111 |
Flannery O'Connor | I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth. | 111 |
George Harrison | We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away. | 111 |
Henry B. Eyring | Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection. | 111 |
Herodotus | I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. | 111 |
Kevin Spacey | It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face. | 111 |
Pope Benedict XVI | How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ! | 111 |
Thomas Mann | A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. | 111 |
Ursula K. Le Guin | I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. | 111 |
Venus Williams | I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth. | 111 |
Wendell Berry | We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. | 111 |
Grover Cleveland | I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind. | 111 |
Joseph Prince | It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety. | 111 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. | 112 |
Benjamin Disraeli | Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. | 112 |
H. P. Lovecraft | If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. | 112 |
Rabindranath Tagore | Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. | 112 |
Vaclav Havel | There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. | 112 |
Tom Stoppard | All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. | 112 |
Billy Corgan | Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth. | 112 |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. | 112 |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. | 112 |
Gordon B. Hinckley | I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context. | 112 |
Horace Mann | Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. | 112 |
Mary J. Blige | You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth. | 112 |
Muhammad Iqbal | The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real. | 112 |
Nick Vujicic | Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's not going to change anything anyway. The truth is you can change someone's day, you can change someone's life, but you have to show up and do what you got to do to actually see any fruit coming from it. | 112 |
Oriana Fallaci | We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only. | 112 |
Pink | My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.' | 112 |
River Phoenix | I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth. | 112 |
Stephen Leacock | A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. | 112 |
Monica Johnson | As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit. | 112 |
Bob Dylan | All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. | 113 |
Jesus Christ | I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. | 113 |
Warren Buffett | We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. | 113 |
Jane Goodall | I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe. | 113 |
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see. | 113 |
Anne Hathaway | I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman. | 113 |
Desiderius Erasmus | Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. | 113 |
Don Miguel Ruiz | People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies. | 113 |
Flannery O'Connor | The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. | 113 |
George Clooney | The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to. | 113 |
Haile Selassie | The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. | 113 |
Helen Hayes | The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. | 113 |
Joseph Joubert | Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. | 113 |
Louisa May Alcott | Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. | 113 |
Octavio Paz | The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides. | 113 |
Paramahansa Yogananda | The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy. | 113 |
Peter Ustinov | The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us. | 113 |
Reinhold Niebuhr | I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. | 113 |
Saint Basil | To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him. | 113 |
Shel Silverstein | Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth. | 113 |
Steven Biko | It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. | 113 |
Thomas Huxley | Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. | 113 |
Wole Soyinka | Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. | 113 |
Andre Maurois | There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. | 113 |
John O'Donohue | Good friends won't let you off the hook when you shouldn't be let off the hook. You can let fall the masks we seem to need to survive in a cutthroat world. There is a value of truth that we typically don't find in other parts of life. | 113 |
Justin Timberlake | Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth. | 113 |
Martin Rees | The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These are parts of the intellectual map where we're still groping for the truth - where, in the fashion of ancient cartographers, we must still inscribe 'here be dragons.' | 113 |
Arthur Schopenhauer | All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. | 114 |
Bruce Lee | All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. | 114 |
Coco Chanel | Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. | 114 |
William James | Truth is what works. | 114 |
Ravi Zacharias | Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again. | 114 |
Alan Dershowitz | The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told. | 114 |
Anne Lamott | Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. | 114 |
Bette Davis | There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. | 114 |
George Lucas | Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. | 114 |
Guru Nanak | There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now. | 114 |
Kate Winslet | It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth. | 114 |
Leonardo DiCaprio | I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of. | 114 |
Niels Bohr | The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. | 114 |
Thom Yorke | I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. | 114 |
Elizabeth Bowen | Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. | 114 |
C. S. Lewis | If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. | 115 |
Marilyn Monroe | The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves. | 115 |
Blaise Pascal | Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. | 115 |
Frank Sinatra | I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. | 115 |
Leo Tolstoy | There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. | 115 |
P. T. Barnum | Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. | 115 |
John Keats | I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. | 115 |
Lewis Carroll | Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. | 115 |
William Tecumseh Sherman | I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. | 115 |
Carl von Clausewitz | Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. | 115 |
Don Miguel Ruiz | I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am. | 115 |
Joseph Conrad | A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. | 115 |
Michael Moore | Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever. | 115 |
Miguel de Cervantes | Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. | 115 |
Niels Bohr | Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true. | 115 |
Penn Jillette | If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means. | 115 |
Susan Sontag | The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. | 115 |
Thom Yorke | Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job. | 115 |
Wole Soyinka | Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. | 115 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | There are no facts, only interpretations. | 116 |
David Hume | Truth springs from argument amongst friends. | 116 |
Terry Pratchett | The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. | 116 |
Andre Gide | Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. | 116 |
Bear Grylls | The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do. | 116 |
Elbert Hubbard | Live truth instead of professing it. | 116 |
John Wayne | I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star. | 116 |
Mike Krzyzewski | The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. | 116 |
Muhammad Iqbal | When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. | 116 |
Patrick Henry | For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. | 116 |
Rafael Nadal | My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always. | 116 |
Tom Hiddleston | Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding. | 116 |
Umberto Eco | But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. | 116 |
Leo Rosten | Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. | 116 |
Conor McGregor | Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man. | 117 |
Jesus Christ | I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. | 117 |
Phil McGraw | The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. | 117 |
Joyce Meyer | Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life. | 117 |
Michael Jackson | Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child. | 117 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. | 117 |
Alejandro Jodorowsky | In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside. | 117 |
Dag Hammarskjold | The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it. | 117 |
Hope Solo | You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect. | 117 |
James Russell Lowell | Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. | 117 |
John Milton | Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. | 117 |
Jose Rizal | The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. | 117 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. | 117 |
Unknown | In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. | 117 |
Will Durant | Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. | 117 |
Tariq Ramadan | Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort. | 117 |
Ellen DeGeneres | Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. | 118 |
Leonard Cohen | In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. | 118 |
Simone de Beauvoir | Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. | 118 |
Audre Lorde | I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. | 118 |
Anatole France | The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. | 118 |
Annie Besant | Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree. | 118 |
Jesse Ventura | There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves. | 118 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. | 119 |
Blaise Pascal | One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. | 119 |
Christopher Hitchens | Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. | 119 |
Malcolm X | Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. | 119 |
Queen Elizabeth II | To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible? | 119 |
Al Pacino | The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever. | 119 |
Mahatma Gandhi | Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. | 120 |
William Shakespeare | Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. | 120 |
Pope Francis | Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency. | 120 |
Andre Gide | The color of truth is gray. | 120 |
William Osler | There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs. | 120 |
George Henry Lewes | Sincerity is moral truth. | 120 |
Gerard Way | The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation. | 120 |
Joseph B. Wirthlin | A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know. | 120 |
Paramahansa Yogananda | Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit. | 120 |
Shakira | The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death. | 120 |
Jane Fonda | You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth. | 120 |
Joyce Carol Oates | When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed. | 120 |
C. S. Lewis | Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. | 121 |
Alan Watts | But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. | 121 |
Isaac Newton | Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. | 121 |
John Stuart Mill | Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. | 121 |
Walt Whitman | Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. | 121 |
Ansel Adams | Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. | 121 |
J. Cole | Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin. | 121 |
Richard P. Feynman | Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet. | 121 |
Charles Stanley | We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. | 121 |
Horace Mann | If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. | 121 |
Morihei Ueshiba | All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together. | 121 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek. | 121 |
William C. Bryant | Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. | 121 |
Eminem | A lot of truth is said in jest. | 122 |
Simone de Beauvoir | I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. | 122 |
Abu Bakr | The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. | 122 |
Joe Rogan | The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both. | 122 |
Lawrence Durrell | Truth disappears with the telling of it. | 122 |
John Dryden | For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen. | 122 |
Oscar Wilde | Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. | 123 |
H. P. Lovecraft | To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. | 123 |
Isaac Newton | Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. | 123 |
Jean-Paul Sartre | Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. | 123 |
D. H. Lawrence | Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. | 123 |
Ashton Kutcher | We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information. | 123 |
Bill Maher | To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that. | 123 |
Herman Melville | Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. | 123 |
Michael J. Fox | I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility. | 123 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. | 123 |
Abraham Lincoln | I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. | 124 |
Drake | I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me. | 124 |
Hunter S. Thompson | If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. | 124 |
Nikola Tesla | The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. | 124 |
James Madison | It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. | 124 |
Ben Shapiro | When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally 'less fortunate' only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive. | 124 |
Henri Frederic Amiel | Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. | 124 |
Isabel Allende | A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons. | 124 |
Buddha | There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. | 125 |
Charles Darwin | To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. | 125 |
Charles Dickens | There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. | 125 |
Charlie Chaplin | I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. | 125 |
Rabindranath Tagore | To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. | 125 |
Jane Austen | Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. | 125 |
Stephen King | Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. | 125 |
Gary Zukav | Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth. | 125 |
Frank Lloyd Wright | The truth is more important than the facts. | 126 |
Thomas Merton | Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. | 126 |
Annie Besant | Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. | 126 |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us. | 126 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. | 126 |
Robert Kiyosaki | I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken. | 126 |
H. L. Mencken | It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. | 201 |
Albert Camus | How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. | 201 |
Aldous Huxley | Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. | 201 |
Jimi Hendrix | Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music. | 201 |
John Locke | The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. | 201 |
Lord Byron | Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? | 201 |
Malcolm X | Truth is on the side of the oppressed. | 201 |
Pablo Picasso | We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. | 201 |
Neil Gaiman | The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in. | 201 |
Josh Billings | There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. | 201 |
Kanye West | You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good. | 202 |
Aldous Huxley | Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. | 202 |
Blaise Pascal | He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. | 202 |
Jimmy Carter | I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach. | 202 |
Margaret Atwood | Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel. | 202 |
Brad Pitt | I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth. | 202 |
Albert Einstein | Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. | 203 |
Buddha | The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain. | 203 |
Blaise Pascal | Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. | 203 |
Leonardo da Vinci | Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. | 203 |
Rumi | That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. | 203 |
Iyanla Vanzant | I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be. | 203 |
Jiddu Krishnamurti | I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. | 203 |
Anne Lamott | My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. | 203 |
Chuck Palahniuk | I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. | 203 |
H. L. Mencken | Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. | 204 |
Bryant H. McGill | Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it. | 204 |
Ellen G. White | As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection. | 204 |
Katy Perry | I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult. | 204 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie? | 205 |
Mahatma Gandhi | An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. | 205 |
Edgar Allan Poe | Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. | 205 |
George Santayana | The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. | 205 |
Virginia Woolf | Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. | 205 |
William Blake | When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. | 205 |
James Madison | Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. | 205 |
Buddha | I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world. | 206 |
Winston Churchill | The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. | 206 |
Carl Jung | Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. | 206 |
Charles Dickens | It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. | 206 |
Aesop | Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. | 206 |
Oprah Winfrey | The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. | 206 |
Umberto Eco | Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. | 206 |
John F. Kennedy | A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. | 207 |
Ambrose Bierce | Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. | 207 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. | 208 |
Mahatma Gandhi | Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. | 208 |
Jean-Paul Sartre | I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist. | 208 |
Chanakya | The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth. | 208 |
Donald Trump | Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much. | 209 |
Khalil Gibran | Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. | 209 |
Coco Chanel | Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor. | 209 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others. | 209 |
Khalil Gibran | Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. | 210 |
Benjamin Disraeli | Silence is the mother of truth. | 210 |
Pablo Picasso | If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. | 210 |
Rabindranath Tagore | Facts are many, but the truth is one. | 210 |
William Butler Yeats | You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. | 210 |
Anais Nin | There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. | 211 |
Charles Spurgeon | The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights. | 211 |
Rabindranath Tagore | Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. | 211 |
R. Buckminster Fuller | Truth is a tendency. | 211 |
John F. Kennedy | The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. | 212 |
Anais Nin | Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. | 212 |
Bob Dylan | Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. | 212 |
Edgar Allan Poe | It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. | 212 |
Franz Kafka | There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. | 212 |
George Orwell | For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. | 212 |
Rodney Dangerfield | I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. | 212 |
Aldous Huxley | It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. | 213 |
Bob Marley | Tell the children the truth. | 213 |
Rabindranath Tagore | The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. | 213 |
Richard Dawkins | Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. | 213 |
Tony Robbins | The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. | 213 |
Aristotle | The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. | 214 |
Buddha | In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. | 214 |
Khalil Gibran | Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. | 214 |
Thomas Aquinas | The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. | 214 |
Oprah Winfrey | It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth. | 214 |
Confucius | Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. | 215 |
Oscar Wilde | The truth is rarely pure and never simple. | 215 |
Charles Spurgeon | After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory. | 215 |
Emily Dickinson | Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. | 215 |
Francis Bacon | Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. | 215 |
Hillary Clinton | The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see. | 215 |
Thomas Paine | But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. | 215 |
Alexander Pope | And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. | 215 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. | 215 |
Samuel Johnson | It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. | 215 |
Mahatma Gandhi | Truth never damages a cause that is just. | 216 |
Franz Kafka | Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. | 216 |
Henry Rollins | Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. | 216 |
Will Rogers | A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. | 216 |
H. L. Mencken | Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. | 217 |
Khalil Gibran | Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. | 217 |
Lao Tzu | The words of truth are always paradoxical. | 217 |
Thomas Jefferson | I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. | 217 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. | 220 |
Soren Kierkegaard | The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. | 221 |
Wayne Dyer | The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking. | 221 |
Henry Ward Beecher | It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. | 221 |
Ambrose Bierce | Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. | 221 |
George Orwell | No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. | 222 |
Martin Luther | Peace if possible, truth at all costs. | 222 |
William Blake | A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. | 222 |
George Washington | Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. | 223 |
Khalil Gibran | Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. | 223 |
Lao Tzu | When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. | 224 |
Douglas Adams | I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. | 224 |
Robin Williams | The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on. | 224 |
Albert Camus | Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. | 225 |
Carl Jung | We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. | 226 |
J. K. Rowling | The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. | 226 |
Soren Kierkegaard | Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. | 226 |
C. S. Lewis | Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. | 301 |
John F. Kennedy | The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. | 301 |
Richard Dawkins | I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned. | 301 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. | 301 |
Deepak Chopra | For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself. | 302 |
Emily Dickinson | Tell the truth, but tell it slant. | 302 |
Albert Einstein | Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. | 303 |
Yogi Berra | A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know. | 303 |
Benjamin Franklin | Half a truth is often a great lie. | 304 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. | 304 |
H. L. Mencken | I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. | 304 |
Winston Churchill | Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. | 304 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. | 305 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. | 305 |
Winston Churchill | A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. | 305 |
Khalil Gibran | Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. | 306 |
Hunter S. Thompson | Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen. | 307 |
Henry David Thoreau | Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. | 308 |
Khalil Gibran | When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. | 308 |
Aristotle | Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. | 309 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | We have art in order not to die of the truth. | 309 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. | 309 |
Winston Churchill | In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. | 309 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. | 311 |
Noam Chomsky | What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane. | 312 |
Benjamin Disraeli | Justice is truth in action. | 313 |
Mahatma Gandhi | God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. | 315 |
Albert Camus | The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. | 315 |
Aristotle | Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. | 316 |
Mark Twain | When in doubt tell the truth. | 316 |
Mahatma Gandhi | My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. | 317 |
George Bernard Shaw | Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. | 318 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. | 318 |
Pope Francis | Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship. | 319 |
Barack Obama | I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I. | 320 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. | 320 |
Mark Twain | Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. | 324 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. | 324 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. | 402 |
Hunter S. Thompson | I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. | 402 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. | 405 |
Khalil Gibran | When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. | 405 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wisdom is found only in truth. | 405 |
Albert Einstein | Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. | 407 |
Aristotle | The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities. | 407 |
Mark Twain | If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. | 407 |
Voltaire | To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. | 407 |
Joyce Meyer | If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours. | 408 |
Maya Angelou | There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. | 409 |
Maya Angelou | For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. | 412 |
Victor Hugo | To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. | 413 |
Thomas Jefferson | In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. | 417 |
Albert Camus | A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. | 417 |
Henry David Thoreau | The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. | 418 |
Mark Twain | Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. | 418 |
Mahatma Gandhi | I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. | 421 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. | 422 |
Ronald Reagan | Facts are stubborn things. | 422 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. | 423 |
Muhammad Ali | My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. | 424 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. | 503 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. | 505 |
Thomas Jefferson | Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. | 509 |
Maya Angelou | The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free. | 510 |
Abraham Lincoln | There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' | 514 |
Albert Einstein | If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. | 517 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. | 520 |
Henry David Thoreau | The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. | 521 |
Henry David Thoreau | I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. | 603 |
Mahatma Gandhi | Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. | 603 |
Abraham Lincoln | That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. | 604 |
Maya Angelou | It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. | 607 |
Mahatma Gandhi | God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us. | 609 |
Albert Einstein | In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. | 614 |
Mark Twain | Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. | 614 |
Albert Einstein | The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. | 617 |
Winston Churchill | Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. | 618 |
Mahatma Gandhi | Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. | 619 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. | 620 |
Mahatma Gandhi | I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. | 623 |
Mark Twain | It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. | 623 |
Winston Churchill | We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. | 625 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. | 703 |
Mahatma Gandhi | Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. | 704 |
Mahatma Gandhi | All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. | 708 |
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