Truth Quotes - Page 35

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has not yet learned what truth is really like; once he has truly learned it, he will cease from zealousness on its behalf.

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance

You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly attracted by the simplicity and beauty of mathematical schemes which nature presents us. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationship, which nature suddenly spreads out before us.

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be concerned about others? Know and examine your own self.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

What joy is ours that the Lord not only forgives our sins ,but allows the soul to know Him, so soon as she humbles herself. The poorest wretch can humble himself and know God in the Holy Spirit. There is no need of money or posessions in order to know God, only humility. The Lord gives Himself freely, for His mercy's sake alone. I did not know this before but now every day and every hour every minute, I see clearly the mercy of God. The Lord gives peace even in sleep, but without God there is no peace in the soul.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Truth is more in the process than in the result.

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.