Top 1200 Truth To Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Canada has always been ready for the truth. I think they actually appreciate a politician or anybody as a leader who tells the truth.

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.

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

You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself.

I think that an actor shouldn't work from a place of fear, because it'll show in your work. You should work from a place of contentment, relaxation, and coming from your heart, and from the truth of yourself.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

Inquire, investigate, doubt yourself and others. To find truth, you must not cling to your convictions; if you are sure of the immediate, you will never reach the ultimate. Your idea that you were born and that you will die is absurd – both logic and experience contradict it.

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.

The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.

Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know your truth and I know that you are beauty and wisdom itself. The food of angels, you give yourself to man in this fire of your love

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

What sentence will you choose to impose on yourself? Are you willing to stop suffering and making yourself miserable when your sentence has expired? This would at least be a responsible way to punish yourself because it would be time-limited.

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.