Truth Quotes
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To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.
William Pepperell Montague -
I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel.
Behdad Sami
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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.
Huston Smith -
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
Why do TEMPLES beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you.
Neill F. Marriott -
Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.
Christina Stead -
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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But Harley has always been this way, for as long as I've known him: he thinks ignorance is the best way to protect someone, and he doesn't understand that what we imagine is often worse than the truth.
Beth Revis -
Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.
Scott Adams -
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Michael Jackson -
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen -
As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Of everyone on this ship, even the frozen bodies of my parents, Elder's the only one who handed me truth and waited for me to accept it.
Beth Revis
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Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as an educated person. You are either learning or you are not. In today's world, it is vitally important that you see the truth in Eric Hoffer's statement. The win or loss, which is waiting in the wings for every person, is enormous. You get to choose which you will experience.
Bob Proctor -
A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
Saul Bellow -
Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.
Brigham Young -
Intelligence is an interesting word. It is also something which, in my opinion, is misunderstood by many people. There are those who believe that we go to school to become intelligent. Or, the more experience a person has on a particular job, the more intelligent they become. This notion is not so. All knowledge is one hundred percent evenly present in all places, at all times. Aware is what you and I want to become. The more aware we become of this truth about intelligence, the better off we will be.
Bob Proctor -
The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.
Simon Sinek -
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.
John Ruskin
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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.
Ethan Hawke -
The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.
Francis Chan -
And what is truth, since it changes according to each individual's perception?
Elizabeth Chadwick