Truth Quotes

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

Hell is truth seen too late.

We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

The truth will make you odd.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion" while truth again reverts to a new minority.

I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Life is nothing without friendship.

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked"”as I am surprisingly often"”why I bother to get up in the mornings.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

It has always been the perogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play.

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Love is energy of life.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?

I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Keep true to the dream of thy youth.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

One man with courage makes a majority.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Never assume the obvious is true.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.

The truth is more important than the facts.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

the result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.

Books do furnish a room.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

Seek truth from facts.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Love conquers all things.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth,

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

The future is purchased by the present.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place."

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.

There's no God higher than truth.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all are gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cockcrow.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Photography is truth.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

Caricature is rough truth.

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Exactitude is not truth.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

The man of reflection discovers Truth; but the one who enjoys it and makes use of its heavenly gifts is the man of action.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

I am the only real truth I know.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men; - I believe that he who once has bathed in the sublime delights of this high Art, is consecrate to Her for ever, and never can deny Her; - I believe that through Art all men are saved.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

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.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system.

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.

Seeing is not always believing.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

This budget is like an Enron budget — smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Truth is the daughter of time.

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?.

To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.

The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has been found demanding, and not tried.

What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.

Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Time discovers truth.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

And in the endthe love you takeis equal tothe love you make

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Do you want the truth or the politically correct version? The truth is that I go plastic, it's so much easier. And I like to put the bags over my head at night when I sleep, which I think all the kids at home should try. Kidding!!

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

I keep reading between the lies.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

Our love cannot be measured, it just is.

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer . . . if he can only . . . tell the naked truth about himself and other people. That, a little technique with words and the willingness to bare heart, soul and body are really all it takes.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

One must not trifle with love.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.

There's a genius in all of us.

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.

There is no original truth, only original error.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

No one is entitled to the truth.

Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms

The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Love is whatever you can still betray ... Betrayal can only happen if you love.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

What I tell you three times is true.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Truth always lags behind, limping along on the arm of Time.

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Life is consciousness.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.

Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full again with youth And wash with an immortal water age?

We don’t look at the sun of truth, but we look at its effects. (Le soleil de la vérité - Ne se regarde, mes ses effets)

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs....

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

True friends stab you in the front.

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—diliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Where there is love there is pain

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Light is the symbol of truth.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.

Truth...never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk

Live truth instead of professing it.