Truth Quotes - Page 53

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.

If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it shall flash back on you the radiance of God. As you save, so shall you be saved.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.

Christ, invisible to the bodily eye, manifests Himself on earth clearly through His Church ... The Church is the Body of Christ both because its parts are united to Christ through His divine mysteries and because through her Christ works in the world.

Tell the truth and make it rhyme

And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage... Second, were we truly men of judgment... Third, were we truly men of integrity... Finally, were we truly men of dedication?-

All truth is God's truth.

Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be.

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.