Top 1200 Relative Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

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.

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

I have a tough skin and enough confidence not to worry too much about being underestimated because of my last name, my relative youth, or my modeling background. It comes with the territory.

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

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.

There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world.

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.

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

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.

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

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.

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.

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.

Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Effort is the key in the relative; effortlessness is the key to the Absolute.

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.

You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative.

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

Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.

No relative of mine has tried to pull favors in Chandigarh - got a job or even a license prepared, started a business, unlike others who did a lot for their families.

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

Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers.

As you get older - I'm not old, but 29 is relative in goalie years - you like to see your number of games taper down a little bit so you are fresher for playoffs.

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

In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.

The relative lack of power of certain minority groups, and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election, is something I think we really need to take a look at.

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 is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

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

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.

"Another relative?" Valek asked. A broad smile stretched Moon Man's lips. "Yes. I am her mother's uncle's wife's third cousin."

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

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.

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.

We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.

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.

Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.

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.

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.

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

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.