Truth Quotes
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The truth often sounds paradoxical.
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The truth is, the plans God has for you are always bigger than you are, and they are never going to be something you can pull off easily and in your own strength.
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The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.
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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
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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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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
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But the truth is, I have no way of accounting for all of the factors involved in any given success, and whenever I learn more, I have to revise what I think. That’s not a weakness or a flaw. That’s reality.
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In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.
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There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.
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According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual's life. It is important to find `the truth for me`.
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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
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Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others.
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No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
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Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.
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I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.
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History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
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The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us.
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Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.
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The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth.
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The truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.
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This perception that I'm negative toward Peyton and I don't appreciate the things he did is so far from the truth.
