Top 1200 Telling The Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Therefore, in the Beginning, which is Truth, all things are Eternal Truth itself

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.

Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.

There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

There is a big disincentive to talk about the truth. I will speak the truth.

The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue

We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.

Truth never changes. Truth always sets people free.

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.

Truth is truth! It is not divisible, and any part of it cannot be set aside.

There's truth and then there's fiction - I think truth does exist and you can present it.

You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead.

Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.

Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.

Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

Mom was bossy. Even in print I could hear her tone, smugly congratulating me on already earning the prince's affections and telling me firmly to keep up whatever I was doing. Yeah, Mom, I'll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.