Top 1200 Discovering The Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.

Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.

What is Truth? Truth is the attribute of when the human heart marries the love of God, and the result is passion for your spiritual path.

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

Canada has always been ready for the truth. I think they actually appreciate a politician or anybody as a leader who tells the truth.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step.

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

Truth isn't beauty. It isn't even always true. Truth is nothing more than consistency of message. I learned that from advertising.

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

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.

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it.

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

Of course there's objective truth, but when we're looking at people's accounts of it, it seems the real truth lies in the accretion of all these different versions.

There's nothing wrong with celebrating the good things in our past. But memories, like witnesses, do not always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We need to cross-examine them, recognizing and accepting the inconsistencies and gaps in those that make us proud and happy as well as those that cause us pain.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.

I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

Religions, by definition, disagree as to the truth - a reality that cannot be overcome by demanding that one or the other faith repudiate its claim to truth.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

Accept only the truth and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love.

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

When I look at material, I get excited by things that are telling the truth because that's what you want to do: tell somebody else's truth.

We are living in an age where it's difficult to know what the truth is and we have got politicians in charge who actually appear to not really care what the truth is.

Christianity is not a doctrine, not truth as truth, but the knowledge of a Person; it is knowing the Lord Jesus. You cannot be educated into being a Christian.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.

The whole time we're traveling the world. You really mature. You're not just learning truth. The truth is changing you and maturing you.

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal

Women can be as destructive, possessive and prone to rage as men, it turns out: but discovering that is what terrifies them, while exhilarating women.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.