Truth Quotes - Page 22

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.

Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise.

We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."

Will fluorine ever have practical applications? It is very difficult to answer this question. I may, however, say in all sincerity that I gave this subject little thought when I undertook my researches, and I believe that all the chemists whose attempts preceded mine gave it no more consideration. A scientific research is a search after truth, and it is only after discovery that the question of applicability can be usefully considered.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs

Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.

Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.