Top 1200 Facing The Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm surprised when I see someone doing the logical, commonsense thing: Walk facing the oncoming traffic.

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

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.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

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.

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.

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.

Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

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

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.

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

All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its value, go with it.

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.

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.

When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

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.

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.

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.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

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

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.

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

Everything I show you is the truth-And the truth is the loveliest of lies.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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

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.

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.

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

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

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.

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

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.

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.

Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

We can see what works in one part of the world and one market, and we can share that knowledge and expertise with markets that are facing challenges.

If you're facing what looks like a large problem, receive it as a compliment from the Universe. What a great soul you must be!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.

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

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

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.

The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.

We want to make sure that anyone facing eviction has access to high-quality legal representation.

Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.

Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.

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.

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