Quotes about truth
truth lying littles
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie. [Lat., Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit.] Marcus Tullius Cicero
truth men world
Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.
truth writing law
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
truth self would-be
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
truth falsehood
It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'
truth fire sparks
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.
truth philosophical imitation
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
truth passion action
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
truth philosophical thinking
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
truth giving honest
The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give. Kenny Loggins
truth nice reality
Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to ourselves without altering it, "like a bird caught with a limestick." But the reality is, every truth we manage to know is altered, deformed by our very "encheiresis naturae," by the act of our taking-in-hand of nature (to borrow the alchemists' phrase from Goethe's Faust). Kenny Smith
truth philosophy perception
Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities.
truth past telling-the-truth
Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present. Ken Loach
truth long may
Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours. Margaret Bourke-White
truth-is heresy shocking
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy. Margaret Deland
truth use truth-is
Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use. Mark Twain
truth alive truth-is
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time....
truth sarcasm journalism
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
truth way strict
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
truth heard has-beens
There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?
truth fiction stranger
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
truth real gentleman
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
truth honesty memories
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
truth truth-is homely
Homely truth is unpalatable.
truth lying men
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.
truth fiction truth-is
Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen. Hunter S. Thompson
truth principles needs
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated. Hu Shih
truth real war
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events. Honore de Balzac
truth slogans
Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth. Ernst Toller
truth real simple
And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
truth word
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
truthful woman women
No sir, I don't think she's a truthful woman at all. Roger Taylor
truth wants
I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper. Lykke Li