Truth Quotes
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
Alan Paton
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
Plato
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Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf called Winky. Minerva, kindly go down to Hagrids house where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog up to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.
Joanne Rowling
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Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and forms that the desire for truth is part of human nature itself.
Pope John Paul II
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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
John Locke Nazareth
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I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.
Lou Doillon
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
Errol Morris
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But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
Jock Sturges
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There was romance and reality truth and dare. People being people, no hero's, just you and me like it always is. We learned how we are together and how we come apart. Life happens.
Stuart Adamson Big Country
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Francois Rabelais
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The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.
Martin Luther
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Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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I could tell you the truth about me... but to seduce you, I will tell you the truth about you.
Zan Perrion
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Truth is inner harmony.
Walther Rathenau
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Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.
R. A. Salvatore
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The only way you can handle big kinds of questions is to simply state briefly what the truth was. What am I going to tell you about the Holocaust? Would you like three pages about it? I don't think you would... I don't think anything different than you think - it was horrible.
Alan Furst
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Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Youth is truth.
James A. Michener
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Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.
Susan Barker
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Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.
William Shakespeare
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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge
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You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.
Andrew Solomon
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Marcus Tullius Cicero