Truth Quotes
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The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!
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Something may be fully approved of … well transmitted … well cogitated ... well pondered, yet it may be empty, hollow, and false; but something else may not be well pondered, yet it may be factual, true, and unmistaken. Under these conditions it is not proper for a wise man who preserves truth to come to the definite conclusion: ‘Only this is true, anything else is wrong.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.
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To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.
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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.
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Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.
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Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.
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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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I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
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Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.
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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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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
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The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.
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In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.
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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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Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won’t be distracted by nuance or even truth.
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The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.
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I certainly didn't tell nobody anything about what the doctors were doing and what they were finding. I didn't even know what they were finding. All I knew is that I was healthy and I was waiting and hoping that the truth would eventually come out like it's finally doing.
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I always say your truth is your compass to your purpose.
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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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Why do TEMPLES beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Mere negations give all advantage to superstition; error seems wisdom and wealth when truth is silent.
