Truth Quotes - Page 41

Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are reduced to apodictic judgments that such and such conclusions follow from such and such premises, and method is reduced to judgments that prescribe the procedure that should be followed in the search for truth.

The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.

The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life

We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace.

If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

I am the only real truth I know.

[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.

Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal.

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy