Truth Quotes
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I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.
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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.
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Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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The silence in our house now is born from the need for intense concentration, as we all carefully step around the truth we wish we didn't know, the person we can't help that Bo became, the future we're all afraid is collapsing around us, falling as silent and cold and crushing as snow.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
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A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
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Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.
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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
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There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.
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All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.
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An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.
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Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
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Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.
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Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
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When people get up on the stage and say, "I've got AIDS," or "I'm in recovery," gosh, it's hard for them. It's like that story touches every person's story. You know, they open their entire humanity up. Storytelling is very important in life. Telling the truth is critical. It's like, again, the melody. The melody of jazz music is the truth, for me.
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It was a needed instrument to spread abroad the truth of a new gospel to woman, and I could not withhold my hand to stay the work I had begun. I saw not the end from the beginning and dreamed where to my propositions to society would lead me.
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
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The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.
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No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.
