Truth Quotes - Page 19

He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

This is my truth, tell me yours.

I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.