Truth Quotes - Page 72

At times truth may not seem probable.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

We live in a real world. Come back to it.

Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.

Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love.

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self.

We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth.

Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.