Truth Quotes - Page 90

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

But truth, that dangerous commodity, has a way of sticking.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

On cannot be precise, and still be true.

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold