Truth Quotes
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Jesus never wanted us to have canned, prefabricated answers for every issue—he wants us to wrestle with the complexity of his message over and over again, until we are able to hold truth in tandem with tension. Truth must be held humbly next to the same hand that holds our doubt. Jesus, I believe, wants us to embrace the tension of faith and repent of our own need for certainty.
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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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O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.
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The truth is that the driver in policy is not the relationship between the United States and Cuba, but the relationship between Cubans, and that is far stronger than 50 years of intragovernment hostility.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
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Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
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In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it.
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Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.
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Truth hath a quiet breast.
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.
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My approach is literally what is being told in the scene. I try to be as real as possible, and I try to find my own truth in it and figure out how to best serve each character.
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The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
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What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
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Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?
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Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful truth is that everyone is creative and we all have the ability to develop our creative potential. It is wise to remember that the person who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd. The person who walks the creative path is likely to find they are in places no one has ever been before.
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Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.
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In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.
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The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.
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It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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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.
