Truth Quotes - Page 10

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

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

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

The truth is more important than the facts.

We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have the holy marking of the Holy Baptism, meaning we have denied the devil and sided with Christ, and received the Holy Marking, the seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.