Truth Quotes
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We have to be prepared and willing to discover what is true even at the cost of our comfort. For real security always lies on the side of truth, not on the side of comfort.
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The opposite of a truth, is a falsehood; but the opposite of a profound truth...may be another profound truth. It either is or is not August...if I assert it's August when it isn't--simply false; but if I say that life is pain, that is true, profoundly so; so, too, that life is joy; the more profound the statement, the more reversible the deep truths are sedimented in syntax, the terms can be reversed...
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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
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Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.
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The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.
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The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
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My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can.
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A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
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The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.
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I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.
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As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.
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By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.
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Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.
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It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.
