Truth Quotes
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Marlantes tells us that his road to recovery required learning to tell the truth, even if that truth was brutally painful.
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To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.
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Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
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The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.
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ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
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He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
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Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.
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No truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
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What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
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My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can.
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I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.
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There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.
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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
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Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.
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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
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Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
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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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For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.
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Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
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All the excitement had worn off - all the veneer to the relationship - and the reality was setting in that we were just very different people with very different values at the end of the day. But we had such a history and also a friendship at the beginning of it, that it was very hard to know what to do with that truth.
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In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
