Truth Quotes
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'We are all sleeping princesses some time. But it is better to be fully awake, don’t you think?'...'Americans do not want to be awake?''Oh,' Becca said, 'we like the truth all right. When it’s tidy.''Truth is never tidy. Only fairy tales.'
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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.
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A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.
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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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Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - ''Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.'
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If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.
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As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.
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“Yet when the denial becomes so complete that we live under what amounts to a tyranny of not seeing and not speaking the existential truth, it becomes dangerous itself. This is what makes the closest and deepest experiences of catastrophe, loss, and failure so”
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One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.
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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
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A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
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The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.
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The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively.
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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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There's so much in the media that's not the truth.
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For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
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The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.
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Why do I live in Israel? Because Israel lives in me, as it lives in all Jews. It is who we are. And those of us lucky enough to recognize this truth and embrace it in all its fullness and depth are the luckiest Jews in the world.
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The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.
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The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.
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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.
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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
