Truth Quotes - Page 104

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

Truth is always paradoxical.

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

I keep reading between the lies.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.

I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.