Truth Quotes
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We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
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In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.
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Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
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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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An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.
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Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
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The only truth I know is my own.
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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
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The Truth doesn’t need people, people need the Truth.
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With acting, you have to just tell the truth in each moment.
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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?
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People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.
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If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.
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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.
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Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.
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But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.
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If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender of the faith." Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for "taking a stand" on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way. The moment one begins to talk about loving your enemies they all of a sudden become "liberals," "extremists," or are accused of completely taking an otherwise straight forward passage "out of context.
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The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.
