Top 1200 Denying The Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

There's something inherently life-denying in television and radio and stuff that's canned.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe - or we are in danger of each believing - that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls.

I thought if I just told the truth, the human truth, it'd be the truth for everyone.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I am tempted to say that we do not look for truth, but for knowledge. But I dislike this form of words, for two reasons. First of all, we do look for truth, however we define it, it is what we find that is knowledge. And second, what we fail to find is not truth, but certainty; the nature of truth is exactly the knowledge that we do find.

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

There is no denying that entertainment industries are insular, but you can't generalise that statement and apply it to everyone.

There is no denying that working with international artistes gives the music a different feel.

Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today?

As much as I disagree with Sarah Palin, there's no denying that she was the victim of sexism.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency.

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

I always want to tell the truth. It doesn't have to be a pretty truth, and it doesn't have to be a life-changing and life-threatening truth like 'Chi-Raq.' But I want to tell someone's truth in an effort to inspire people to see themselves reflected on the screen.

I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing.

Arguably, Blackburn have got the best forward line in the Premiership. There's no denying that.

We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.

Update your truth! There is no soul; there is only mind and body! Update your truth or the truth will update you! The truth and the science are the greatest updaters!

At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change it. It is always the same. It has been the same, it is the same, it will be the same. But to say that we know the truth and that we have the truth is really a self-deception. If you had known the absolute truth there would have been no problems and everybody would have said the same thing. There would be no discussions, no arguments, no fights and wars. But when we don't know the absolute truth then we can find out our own mental conceptions as the truth. But this mind is so limited.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp.

holding tight, denying the fact that eventually we all had to let go.

Training can get on a man's nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.

There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.

I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.

Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.

There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.

All racism is wrong, and denying that it exists does not make it go away.

To seek Truth is to deny Truth to being with. To seek Truth is to avoid Truth, constantly.

If the Story is not accurate to reality, it's not any kind of truth at all. So it can never be 'my truth' or 'your truth,' even though we may believe it. It can only be our delusion or our mistake or our error, but it can never be our 'truth.'

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

We have to have Internet streaming with truth out there. We have to have folks who are peacefully protesting, telling the truth. And the heart of America will begin to melt in the face of truth and charity.

When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

I still believe there is a lot of truth in Orthodox Judaism, but not the whole truth. Each person has his truth that he has to discover. You don't necessarily have to mold yourself to another idea of who you are.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.