Truth Quotes
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I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.
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It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation.
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Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.
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I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.
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As long as you are pure of heart, you speak the truth.
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I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.
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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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When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.
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I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.
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The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.
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[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.
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Truth exists; only lies are invented.
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In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
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We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that, as grown-ups, we tell the truth and live in fact. But, of course, the reality is we take the facts that we know, and then we fill in all the blanks.
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My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.
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'For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the Ninth Gate.'
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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.
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Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
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Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.
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The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
