Truth Quotes - Page 114

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.

The first casualty in every war is truth.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks!

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

Tell the truth and not the facts.

Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.