Truth Quotes - Page 86

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

The truth is, rarely can a response make something better - what makes something better is connection.

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Tell the children the truth.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.