Truth Quotes - Page 89

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can only do exactly what you tell them to, and that therefore computers are never creative. This cliché is true only in a crashingly trivial sense, the same sense in which Shakespeare never wrote anything except what his first schoolteacher taught him to write-words.

Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.

Errors are many, truth is unique.

You don't know what you can do until you try.

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

Truth is its own reward.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

I like being at that place where you can either fall or stand. That's where I think you really have a shot at doing something truthful.