Quotes about truth
truth believe people
Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you. Ronald Knox
truth facts
Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth. Stephen Colbert
truth sun truth-is
Warmth is to sun, as truth is to me. Stephen Colbert
truth scream x-files
I scream, you scream, we all scream... for the truth. Stephen Colbert
truth areas
Apply Truth liberally to the inflamed area. Stephen Colbert
truth heroic-deeds humanity
But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself. Stefan Zweig
truth silence criminals
Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.... Stefan Zweig
truth love-you men
A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags… Sophie Kinsella
truth fiction fairy
And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. Thomas Gray
truth true-and-false speech
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. Thomas Hobbes
truth lying men
True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth. Thomas Hobbes
truth struggle men
Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed. Thomas Hobbes
truth war errors
This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson
truth-is divides
Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth. Thomas Brooks
truth-is
Truth is mighty and will prevail Thomas Brooks
truth humility joy
A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy. Thomas Brooks
truth practice civilization
The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
truth differences use
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
truth lying hate
Men hate those to whom they have to lie. Victor Hugo
truth legends
History has its truth; and so has legend hers. Victor Hugo
truth imagine
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.... Vernon Howard
truth honesty doors
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door. Vernon Howard
truth path deviation
Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path. Tryon Edwards
truth hate delay
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.) Sophocles
truth lying ruins
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. Sophocles
truth truth-is straightforward
Truth is always straightforward. Sophocles
truth truth-is
The truth is ever best. Sophocles
truth prussia argument
The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles
truth artist style
Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too-everyone says so-but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be you know. Stephen King
truth order clothes
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked. Soren Kierkegaard
truth crowds praise
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth. Soren Kierkegaard
truth race age
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical. Soren Kierkegaard
truth desire world
The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth. Soren Kierkegaard