Truth Quotes - Page 95

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

Truth is often attended with danger.

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.

Truth will only make you unpopular.

Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.