Truth Quotes
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The truth is always more heroic than the hype.
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Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.
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The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.
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You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.
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The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
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With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.
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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
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Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?
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We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
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The God-honest truth is that Jeff and I just do what we do. You have no control. We didn't have control last year, or the year before either, or the year before that. We can only do what we do, which is to make the show that we love, continue to follow the path for the stories that we want to tell, tell great and compelling stories, week-to-week, that interest our fans, and really hope for the best.
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Why do they want to disarm the people? Well, they want to disarm the people on the assumption that we are not responsible enough to be trusted with the means to defend ourselves-regardless of the truth that our Founders thought that this is an essential prerequisite and precondition of liberty.
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I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.
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"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
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To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.
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I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
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I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are more useful than others, and opportunity cost is near the top.
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I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
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A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.
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This is what I love about people! You meet people outside of the business, they'll tell you the truth.
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I try not to do it in a way that is hurtful, but I always tell him the truth, and he tells me the same thing. I trust him the most, and I know he trusts me the most.
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Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.
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Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
