Truth Quotes
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It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a large portion of the noblest and most valuable moral teaching has been the work not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected the Christian faith.
John Stuart Mill
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If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully alive as you can be. You need courage to pursue the truth of your life and yourself.
Eda LeShan
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Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'
William James
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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My mother worked on a whole bunch of those; she worked on What's My Line?, I've Got A Secret, Play Your Hunch... In my memory, she worked on To Tell The Truth. So it was her job to brief the imposters.
Cynthia Nixon
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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.
Noah Porter
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You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.
Andy Serkis
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Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Each individual imagines that he can exist, live, think, and act for himself, and believes that he himself is the thinking principle of his thoughts; whereas in truth he is but a single ray of the ONE universal and necessary Thought.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Our career is not something that we go out and *find.* Your perfect career is something that emerges from deep within you. When you are aligned with the truth within yourself, then you magnetize people and circumstances which align with that truth.
Marianne Williamson
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They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
Confucius
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Truth always prevails. And I believe in that. I believe in God.
Michael Jackson
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Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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The truth is, I would do anything for Alan Rudolph. If he asked me to stand on my head and spit wooden nickels, I would. I love him. I loved working with him.
Lesley Ann Warren
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Every time I crash the Internet, it's like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?
Kanye West
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Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies.
Ai Weiwei
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It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy
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Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.
William R. Alger
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The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.
Lao Tzu
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In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in his path, and which he must dispose of; and on the manner in which it is determined depends his theology, and of course his religion, so far as his theology is to him a truth and reality.
Charles Hodge
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It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.
Chris Christie
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I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
Bob Kane
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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.
Francis Bacon