Quotes about truth
truth reality thinking
First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were. [...] The truth doesn't die. John F. Kennedy
truth philosophy ideas
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
truth tyrants giving
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
truth reality being-real
Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out. Jon Voight
truth people speak
like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth ... Joyce Carol Oates
truth
Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked.
truth men presidential
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
truth hills huge
On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo. John Donne
truth heart imagination
I am sure of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections. John O'Donohue
truth tolerance religion
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. John Milton
truth live-your-life ifs
If you live your life in truth, the truth will out. John Astin
truth understanding culture
There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense. Johan Huizinga
truth thinking mind
A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.
truth past people
People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.
truth style chess
Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth. Garry Kasparov
truth soul secret
No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe. Lord Byron
truth cutting roots
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa. Mahatma Gandhi
truth sleep errors
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
truth errors again-and-again
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
truth lying moving
The nimble lie Is like the second-hand upon a clock; We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen, And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike Till it has reached the goal. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
truth found dare
Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?
truth often-is wonder
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. Henri Poincare
truth men giving
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics? But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness? Man, then, can not be happy through science but today he can much less be happy without it.
truth giving something-new
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.
truth geometry
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
truth knowledge science
It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
truth lying revolution
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth. Henrik Ibsen
truth freedom enemy
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
truth exactitude
Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.] Henri Matisse
truth deadline
For truth there is no deadline. Heywood Broun
truth truth-love deepest-love
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love. Heinrich Heine
truth honesty skills
How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill. Henry Wotton
truth telling-the-truth puzzles
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.