Top 1200 Knowing The Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going.

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

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble with a scientist is we quickly tire of our discoveries. We hand them over to people who are not ready for them, while we go off again into the darkness of ignorance, searching for other discoveries, which will be mishandled in just the same way when the time comes.

You know, sometimes there's a difference between what is actually the truth and what you perceive to be the truth through your social conditioning.

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

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.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact 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.

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.

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.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than 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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My truth is funny; I laugh with my husband every day.

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

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

I was taught the truth will set you free... unless, of course, you want the truth about who killed JFK.

I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

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.

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.

The truth hurts, and not everyone can deal with it. Every player is different, but they are all entitled to the truth. It is up to them if they can handle it or not.

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.

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

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

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

But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

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

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes - and that's because I am passionate about the truth... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans.

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.

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.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

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

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

And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

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.

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

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

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

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.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

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.