Quotes about truth
truth inspiration prevailing
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so. Mark Twain
truth care sometimes
I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.
truth believe mind
But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.
truth telling-the-truth tricks
Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.
truth self people
It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.
truth lying believe
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
truth people fiction
Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
truth long mind
I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.
truth honesty men
We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.
truth opportunity littles
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
truth reality trying
Maybe its time we stop trying to avoid the truth and let it have its day. Michael Caine
truth landscape horizon
The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth. Mason Cooley
truth disillusionment
Disillusionment is not truth.
truth power errors
Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
truth rain
Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!
truth phantoms truth-is
Truth is a necessary phantom.
truth sometimes
We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.
truth looks ugly
The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.
truth follow-me
The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.
truth vanity may
After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.
truth going-away embarrassment
Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.
truth past issues
Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.
truth sides mouths
I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.
truth firsts
Truth usually stammers at first.
truth want bathroom
Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.
truth philosophy philosophical
The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.
truth lying silent
Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.
truth lying telling-the-truth
Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.
truth ifs unwelcome
If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths.
truth lying hard
It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.
truth half half-truth
Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
truth dangerous
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous. Mencius
truth errors relation
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. Michel Foucault