Truth Quotes - Page 123

The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Walk with those seeking truth...

The truth is that you are innately good, wise, and powerful. You were created in and for good.

Truth is the easiest thing to sell.

Truth is buried, deep inside of men, sweep away each day.

Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.

Truth is disputable, not human taste.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit "God eternally geometrizes."

I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.