Truth Quotes - Page 122

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.

Your character is your destiny.

The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.

The truth is, the Universe will always take care of you.

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.

Stories are a different kind of true.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.

Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Seeker of truth follow no path all paths lead where truth is here.