Quotes about truth
truth two
Two truths cannot contradict one another. Galileo Galilei
truth book learning
It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that insures your growth. Frederick William Robertson
truth soul matter
In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.
truth heart love-is
There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is incredible to other men.
truth-is abyss
The truth is always an abyss. Franz Kafka
truth expecting
Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it. Erica Jong
truth
I have to go to the prosecutor. I have to tell the truth. Bob Woodward
truth
I don't know how much I'm going to find out. I don't know how much of the truth will be told.
truth sick interesting
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting. J. D. Salinger
truth childhood parent
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
truth done impossible
Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it. Ivy Compton-Burnett
truth reality feel-good
It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen. Ione Skye
truth free-yourself tails
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. Clarence Darrow
truth honesty catching-fire
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
truth asking-questions goal
The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to find your way to your destination... In short, the goal of truth goes without saying, in every human culture. Daniel Dennett
truth honesty mean
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want. David Mamet
truth
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. Michael Kinsley
truth
The truth does not need to be defended. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
truth
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. Blaise Pascal
truthful
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye. Charlotte Bronte
truth honesty lying
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. George Herbert
truth errors faults
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
truth propaganda dangerous
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. Georg C. Lichtenberg
truth errors humanity
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.... Georg Brandes
truth world this-world
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.
truth believe names
To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
truth knowledge thinking
Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins. Friedrich Nietzsche
truth ocean salt
It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
truth knowledge men
Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
truth men errors
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
truth support littles
It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.
truth knowledge antidote
No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
truth mind impression
the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself. Frances Wright