Top 1200 Universal Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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 truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.

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 tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost 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 mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

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

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

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him is the spirit that comes from God. Man lived before he came to this earth, and he is here now to strive to perfect the spirit within. At sometime in his life, every man is conscious of a desire to come in touch with the Infinite. His spirit reaches out for God. This sense of feeling is universal, and all men ought to be, in deepest truth, engaged in the same great work—the search for and the development of spiritual peace and freedom.

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.

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.

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

Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.

Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.

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

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.

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

I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.

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

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.

All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its value, go with it.

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.

With the project where I'm making something with my own name, my main mission statement is honesty. I never want to hold back from what I'm saying for fear of showing it to people. At the same time, I try to take my own personal experiences and problems and wrap them around lyrics that are a little more universal and not naming names. I don't let it get that personal. That's not really a fear of over-sharing, it's just what makes a good song. I want to get people to listen to it and to find a universal aspect of what I'm trying to say.

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.

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

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.

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.

Of course there's objective truth, but when we're looking at people's accounts of it, it seems the real truth lies in the accretion of all these different versions.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.

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

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.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

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.

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

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.

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.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

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.

Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

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

Truth has no path, truth is living and, therefore, changing.

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

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.

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

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

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.

I have a responsibility to tell the truth. The truth about what we`ve done, and what we`ll do.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.