Truth Quotes - Page 57

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

The truth is, however, that every religion form is superior to the others in a particular respect, and it is this characteristic that in fact indicates the sufficient reason for the existence of that form.

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

The truth comes out... I think when you fight you find out who you are

The truth is dark under your eyelids.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

Truth is something that happens to an idea.