Truth Quotes
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All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
John Shelby Spong
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
Samuel Johnson
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Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.
Ben Harper
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The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.
Eyedea
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Heaven bent to take my handAnd lead me through the fire.Be the long awaited answerTo a long and painful fight.Truth be told I've tried my best,But somewhere along the wayI got caught up in all there was to offer,And the cost was so much more than I could bear.
Sarah McLachlan
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The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.
Barack Obama
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... the final judge was truth -- immortal.
Eleanor Dark
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I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.
Lee Daniels
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In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to see, his ears hear what he ought to hear and his heart understands what he ought to understand. "And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion," he wrote.
Harold B. Lee
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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
Saint Augustine
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It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from ‘the wise man’s mouth’ but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.
J. M. Coetzee
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It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.
Jake Tapper
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What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.
Sacha Guitry
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You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
Kenny Loggins
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The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.
Otto Rank
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The Bible is the fountain of truth.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.
Anna Hutchison
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Truth is life's most precious commodity.
Edwin Louis Cole
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To seek advice is easy, easy-approach job. To find the truth by yourself, that is a little difficult, and you have to work hard continuously, and you will find it.
Lobsang Tenzin
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Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
Protagoras
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The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.
N. T. Wright
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People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
Avigdor Lieberman
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One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!
Artie Lange