Top 1200 Truth And Falsehood Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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.

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.

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

Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

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

All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

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

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

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

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.

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

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

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.

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

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

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

Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride.

I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

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

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.

People hate the truth. Luckily, the truth does not care.

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

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

All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

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 has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

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.

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.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

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

- 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.

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

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

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

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

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

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

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

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.

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.

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