Truth Quotes
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Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
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To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.
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The joy of 'The X-files' is how it plays on so many different realities never knowing what is the truth and what is the deception. So my approach to my character has always been that we are alive and have always been alive and were never 'killed off' but held a fake funeral in 'Jump the Shark' to get the heat off of us.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.
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One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.
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Christ died for the truth.
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Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will - will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.
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The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged 'truth' which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
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I recorded this album in a windowless room in Brooklyn by myself. I think Chamber of Reflection sums the album up better than Salad Days to tell you the truth.
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Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.
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A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
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Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
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I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.
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I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
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The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
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Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
