Top 1200 Historical Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself.

How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield!

When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot - this side and not the other side. In cinema, there's one truth - not 'the truth.' It's only 'my point of view.' Cinema is powerful because of that.

When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.

Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

Be still and know yourself as the Truth you have been searching for. Be still and let the inherent joy of that Truth capture your drama and destroy it in the bliss of consummation. Be still and let your life be lived by the purpose you were made for. Be still and receive the inherent truth of your heart.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

I'm truly overwhelmed by the beauty of the land, the culture, and the historical significance of Egypt.

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

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

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.

The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word...Only the truth will set us free.

There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

If I'm talking about girls and stuff, it's usually the truth. So now, you know, if you hear my songs, you are gonna appreciate it differently because usually, it's the truth.

Anyone who says a movie about history is a historical document is crazy.

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

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

That which takes us nearer to the Almighty (Sat) is truth. Truth needs no external support to sustain or promote itself.

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