Truth Quotes
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A line of Shakespeare, lodged in my head from one of the only classes I ever attended regularly in high school, runs through my mind: “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
Barbara O'Neal
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Not from without us, only from within, Comes or can ever come upon us light Whereby the soul keeps ever truth in sight. No truth, no strength, no comfort man may win, No grace for guidance, no release from sin, Save of his own soul's giving.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.
Lesli Linka Glatter
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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.
Cindy McCain
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The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.
Twyla Tharp
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Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
Alice Childress
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Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Agatha Christie
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I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
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Consummate talent and relentless passion - The Truth ain't pretty...but it rocks like crazy!
Billy Squier
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When we actively relate to people as rivals or enemies, we foster the false belief that we and they stand independent of one another. The truth is that we bind ourselves to them as if by an invisible tether, and we do so by our negative thoughts and feelings." "Who we are is who we are with others. How they seem to us is a revelation of ourselves.
C. Terry Warner
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The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.
Karl Popper
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I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.
Gerald Massey
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Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera.
Nan Kempner
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Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Niels Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.
Albert Einstein
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He had already figured out a great universal truth, that people never asked for documentation of anything, as long as you asked them for documentation first.
Charlie Jane Anders
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All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in infering that he is an inexact man.
Bertrand Russell
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Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.
Brad Blanton
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We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...
Agatha Christie
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If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.
C. S. Lewis
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Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
Margaret Lee Runbeck