Truth Quotes
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The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.
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When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.
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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
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Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
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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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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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The truth is straight ahead, so don't burn yourself instead.
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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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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
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How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
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The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.
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Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.
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It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
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The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.
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The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.
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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember.
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The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.
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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
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No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.
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We obviously have to honor the commitments that have been made to the people who are already retired or near the retirement age. But we need to tell the truth about the fact that when we set the retirement age at age 65 in America, life expectancy was only 62.
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'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.
