Truth Quotes - Page 21

Listen to what people say when they are mad, that's when the truth comes out.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.

Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.