Truth Quotes
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Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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I believe in the fire of love and the sweat of truth.
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All are before me! I behold The House, the Brotherhood austere! - And what am I, that I am here? For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the gloom: What dost thou in this living tomb?
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For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.
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All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
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A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.
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And took for truth the test of ridicule.
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The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
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Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.
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The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
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If one person believes a story, it becomes a truth—for him. That’s why history is such a mare’s nest: it’s difficult to determine what happened as opposed to what people thought happened, wanted to happen, felt should have happened. The slant is everything.
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Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.
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This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.
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As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.
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The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.
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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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All truth contains an echo of sadness.
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All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
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Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
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We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.
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Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.
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You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.
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Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift.
