Top 1200 Harsh Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

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.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

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.

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

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

Truth has no path, truth is living and, therefore, changing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

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.

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

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

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

LA is a harsh city to be in when you're a little girl from the South, and you have absolutely no idea what you're doing and you are thinking, 'Am I making, have I made a massive mistake? I don't have money to move back home. My parents are not on board with this. What do I do?'

I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.

Children with harsh fathers accept much of what is thrown their way as normal because they don’t have a frame of reference for anything else, and this twisted template unfortunately becomes the basis for their picture of the heavenly Father.

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.

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.

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

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

I have a responsibility to tell the truth. The truth about what we`ve done, and what we`ll do.

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.

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

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

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

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.

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.

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

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.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.