Truth Quotes
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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.
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The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
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One thing my teacher taught me about getting psychic information with my intuition was to say, "Just show me the truth of this situation, God." That helps us to be able to read it more clearly.
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Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.
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I’ll tell you my truth, if you’ll tell me yours.
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And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. (Or, for that matter, as true.)
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We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.
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Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.
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It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
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It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.
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Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.
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Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.
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Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.
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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
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I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper.
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Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you're going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they're not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.
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But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.
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If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.
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He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.
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People don't want to know the truth.
