Truth Quotes
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Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.
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It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.
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It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it
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Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.
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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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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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The truth is that I think that most people, and most people in this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger', are really doing their best but they're stumbling all over the place and they're hurting each other deliberately and by accident.
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No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.
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I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.
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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
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It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
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Stand on your truth and what you believe in. Don't let anyone alter that because you can't build a house on weak foundation.
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Truth is only a question of point of view.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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A fear-based faith distorts a lot of things, but what it distorts the most is the reflection we see in the mirror. Fear has a way of reflecting ugliness and distorted realities--lies with the appearance of truth--and gives us the false impression that fear tells the truth while concealing the reality that fear is a liar. It may be a good liar because it mixes fact with fiction, but it's a liar nonetheless. The reflections of fear must never be trusted, no matter how many nuggets of truth may be mixed in those ugly waters.
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Words are powerful things. They can start—or end—wars. People believe in words. They are the fundamental expression of ourselves, the division between human and not, the means by which we learn. And while people use words to teach, to express art, to proclaim truths, at the most basic level, people use words to simply say: I am here.
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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
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Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
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I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.
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The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.
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Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.
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Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.
