Truth Quotes
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The truth is that several years ago, I suffered from depression. And I remember during this time, I basically fell into this hole where my life became cold, and it became gray, and I lost sight of everything that was important to me.
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We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a right to think freely.
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Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
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People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.
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If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.
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The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.
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To be honest with you, girls didn't really start paying attention to me until after 'Clueless' came out. Then, all of a sudden, it was different. And that's the honest-to-goodness truth. I wasn't very popular until that happened. I have zero pickup lines. My game, I guess you could say, is my work.
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As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.
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I have the purest intent when it comes to love. But it doesn't always work out that way. That's the truth. But you know, it's still pretty fun when you're in the moment.
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What are the odds that Dan Rather would have accepted such patently phony documents from, say, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth?
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A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
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Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
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And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.
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Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.
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I thought if I just told the truth, the human truth, it'd be the truth for everyone.
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Sometimes, if I am not in a situation where the truth matters, I take the liberty of becoming playful and making up a profession. I’ve said I’m a chef. I’ve said I train astronauts. I’ve said I’m a fisherman. One time I said I was a spy. The person I was talking to became instantly animated and started peppering me with so many questions it would have been easier if I had simply told the truth. As it was, I had to fabricate a wild set of statements based on my uninformed speculation about what a spy does! But such is the mind of a person who has ADHD—in this case, me—that making up stories comes quite naturally. Some people call this lying, but when there is no harm done, I call it playing.
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The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn’t been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.
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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
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He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.
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The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.
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People will invest in you only if they see some kind of return, and that's the dark truth.
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Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.
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Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.
