Truth Quotes - Page 31

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

You cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

truth is a letter from courage!

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

He who seeks truth should be of no country.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

A lot of truth is said in jest.