Truth Quotes - Page 111

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.

All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.

it's always best to tell the truth.

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he has very little ability to discover truth.' And again, 'Without this theory no one can have a correct insight into truth.' And he says also, 'I warn the man who spurns these paths of knowledge that he cannot philosophize correctly.' And Again, 'It is clear that whosoever passes these by, has lost the knowledge of all learning.'

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

For the truth is a terrible thing.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.