Top 1200 Simple Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.

If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.

You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they're simple, people will think they're simpleminded. In reality, of course, it's just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple.

To me, acting is simple. People put other things in front of it, but it's staying in truth.

I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

The truth is that business is simple: create great products, merchandise them at the point of sale, continuously innovate and surprise, reward and achieve a position of loyalty with your front line, and seek new truth from the market. Deliver the goods at a competitive cost. Price to earn a decent but not competitively inviting return. Not much else matters.

No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.

The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.

I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple.

Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

I've always been someone who's believed in truth. I believe truth exists. I don't believe in relativism, a 'your truth, my truth' kind of a thing. However, I also believe that the truth must always be spoken in love - and that grace and truth are found in Jesus Christ.

Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

I found that most people don't really want to know the truth. There are plenty of people who want to know the truth on their terms or require that the truth be contained within certain boundaries of comfort. But truth can never be known this way. You have to seek truth from a place of not knowing, and that can be a very threatening place because we think we already know the truth or we are afraid of what the truth might be.

What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'

The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

Avoid all refined speculations; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly from one truth to another feed their curiosity and restlessness; they even distract their intellect with too great a multiplicity of views. Give every truth time to send down deep root into the heart.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is getting something. The truth is doing us good. The truth of the sunshine, the truth of the rain, the truth of the fresh air, the truth of the wind in the trees, these are truths. And they are always accessible!

What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth.

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.

It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

You can't be afraid to speak the truth. If you're speaking truthfully - no matter if you're White, Black, Hispanic, Asian - if it's the truth, it's the truth! And if that's what you're telling, you have no reason to be fearful, or, worry about people trying to diffuse what you're doing. Because, if you're speaking the truth, they can't beat the truth.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?

One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.

But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.

The truth is, every situation is different and has its own unique set of circumstances. That is reality, plain and simple.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.

You can run from the truth. You can run and hide from the truth. You can deny and avoid the truth. But you cannot destroy the truth. Nor can you make the lie true. You must know that love will always uncover the truth.

What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's no knowing truth. Truth seekers are all charlatans. You can only feel the truth of something.

The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.

In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My death shall do it." Other martyrs have died in simple fidelity to truth. This martyr dies that He may make His truth mighty over all hearts. He was a man; but was He only a man?

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.