Top 1200 Seeing The Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

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

There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.

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.

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.

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.

Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.

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

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

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

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

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.

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.

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.