Truth Quotes
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Forget dice rolling or boxes of chocolates as metaphors for life. Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot, and you'll be much closer to the truth.
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Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.
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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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The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.
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When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
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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.
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Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.
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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
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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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That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
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I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.
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Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.
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People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.
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The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you.
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Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?
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That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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To add to truth distracts from it.
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Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander or Gen. William Westmoreland or President Lyndon Johnson. If you are a squad leader, answer questions about what you know and do.
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Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".
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The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'
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Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."
