Truth Quotes - Page 106

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count the miles." As I said, the virtues are at the midpoint between excess and laxness. That is why it is written, "Do not turn to the right or the left" (Prov 4:27) but travel on the "royal way" (Num. 20:17). Saint Basil also says, "The person who does not allow his thoughts to incline towards excess or deprivation but directs it to the midpoint, that of virtue, is upright in heart."

Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

I am here to serve. I am here to inspire. I am here to love. I am here to live my truth

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.

Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope

The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.

The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

Death is a mighty, universal truth.

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.