Truth Quotes
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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
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Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.
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The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for to be true means only to perform this marriage-function.
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All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.
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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.
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Pursue truth and people will be true to you.
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Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.
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What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event and fact of cosmic history. From then on everything is differentthe End came forward into the present in Jesus the Messiah
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Poetry's object is truth.
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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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"I believe it" announced Tafe complacently. "That my dear " said Ambrose "is because you grew up in a rough and violent world here just managing to live from day to day is easily considered a miracle. You are able to accept the truth no matter how astonishing its guise. Whereas our friend Hocker here is steeped in the overweening rationalism of his time and could mentally dismiss a mastodon in front of him if it happened to be wearing the wrong school tie
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A critic never made or killed a book or a play. The people themselves are the final judges. It is their opinion that counts. After all, the final test is truth. But the trouble is that most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession and therefore are most economical in its use.
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The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
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Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.
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When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.
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It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.
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We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.
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How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.
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Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.
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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery.
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Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.
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If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
