Truth Quotes - Page 55

Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death is considered loss and life is considered gain. Thus, death is something that such a person does not care for, and he is contemptable. Furthermore, scholars and their like are men who with wit and speech hide their own true cowardice and greed. People often misjudge this.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

The truth is that money doesn't make you rich; knowledge does.

I have a responsibility to tell the truth. The truth about what we`ve done, and what we`ll do.

The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.

God is truth and light his shadow.

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.

They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

Peace without truth is a false peace.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Truth has no beginning.