Top 1200 Partial Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

Truth is not what I say it is, and not what you think it is. Truth is what God's word says it is.

One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

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

Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.

Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock down safe, comfortable, familiar interpretations, even if they are only partial representations of or fully disconnected from reality.

So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully. So we compromise. We do some of what we should, thus removing the stigma of disobedience. But we refrain from the most difficult or objectionable or uncomfortable part, and thus try to get the best of both worlds.

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

All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

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

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

If you live your life in truth, the truth will out.

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release.

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.

I'm just going to speak the truth and if people like it or don't, it's the truth.

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

Seeker of truth follow no path all paths lead where truth is here.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

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.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

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

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

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

All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T.

Raising the minimum wage may poll well, but having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the American Dream. And our current government programs, offer at best only a partial solution. They help people deal with poverty, but they do not help them escape it.

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

The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.

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

Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!

Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn

People hate the truth. Luckily, the truth does not care.

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

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

There’s only truth and not truth. You’re either very good or evil.

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

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.