Truth Quotes - Page 62

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.

A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.

I think the truth is black-and-white .

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

What I tell you three times is true.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.

To understand the truth is to do the truth.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.