Truth Quotes
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It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
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The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.
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Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.
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All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.
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It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
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We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.
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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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All I want is the truth, just give me some truth...
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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The Truth never flaunted a sign.
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When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?
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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.
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The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.
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How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they have their own morality and nothing else matters.
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Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
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A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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.
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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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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.
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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.
