Truth Quotes
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Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
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There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.
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Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.
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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . .
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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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Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
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If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
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To add to truth distracts from it.
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It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
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I prefer to be a great team not only on paper but also on the pitch. The pitch is the truth. The pitch speaks.
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Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.
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All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. This truth (the only one) is for the strong alone. Weak-nerved minds insist on a finite universe, a last number; they need, in Nietzsche's words, "the crutches of certainty". The weak-nerved lack the strength to include themselves in the dialectic syllogism.
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Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.
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Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.
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The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.
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If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.
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Habit with him was all the test of truth,It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.
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With acting, you have to just tell the truth in each moment.
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There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, 'This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.' I just wish they'd say, 'It ain't the truth.'
