Top 1200 Profound Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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.

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

I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.

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

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

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.

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.

Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

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

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

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

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

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

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for 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.

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.

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