Truth Quotes - Page 5

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

Truth is not what I say it is, and not what you think it is. Truth is what God's word says it is.

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound.

Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:" So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

I tell the truth. And I know what I'm talking about. That's why I'm a threat.