Truth Quotes - Page 45

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings. To those who look at the rich material provided by history, and who are not intent on impoverishing it in order to please their lower instincts, their craving for intellectual security in the form of clarity, precision, "objectivity," "truth," it will become clear that there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.

The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.

Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

I would like now to shed light in your heart on the truth of things, for it was not my will, but that of the Father and my Rabbi, which was done that faithful night.

Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.