Truth Quotes - Page 27

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

So don't let anybody tell you that you're not loved and don't let anybody tell you that you're not enough, Yeah there are days that we all feel like we're messed up, But the truth is that we're all diamonds in the rough.

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.

The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets."

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

The truth is always an abyss.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.