Truth Quotes
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Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as in moral truth and accountability they are.
Peter Drucker
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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
Jean Rostand
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Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out. The great beneficiaries have been the creditors and counterparties at the other end of A.I.G.'s derivatives deals - firms like Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, Barclays and UBS.
Tyler Cowen
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.
Ogden Nash
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Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
Ben Harper
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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
David Hume
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
Victor Hugo
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The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
H. L. Mencken
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
William Blake
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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
Mary Harris Jones
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
Petrarch
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I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.
Elia Suleiman
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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
Stephen Levine
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I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.
Debra Winger
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The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.
Muhammad Ali
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Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.
Richard Scott Bakker
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
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Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.
John C. Reilly
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I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.
Stanley Robert Vinton