The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
~By Adam Clarke ~
We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
~By Feisal Abdul Rauf ~
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
~By Cameron Crowe ~
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
~By Jean-Luc Godard ~
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
~By Max Planck ~
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
Ideas are, in truth, force.
~By Henry James ~
Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
~By Denis Diderot ~
Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
~By Charles Ives ~
It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.
~By Bob Kane ~
Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.
~By Mike Pence ~
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.
~By Todd Solondz ~
When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.
~By Frank Rich ~
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.
~By Elias Hicks ~
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
~By Abu Bakr ~
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
~By Karl Pearson ~
I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.
~By Serj Tankian ~
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
~By George Herbert ~
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
~By Donna Tartt ~
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Official truths are often powerful illusions.
~By John Pilger ~
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
~By Theodore Parker ~
I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
~By Bob Dylan ~
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
~By Spike Lee ~
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
~By Terry Eagleton ~
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
~By Vernon Howard ~
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
~By Aristotle ~
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
~By Jim Morrison ~
People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.
~By Brian Koslow ~
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
~By Marie de France ~
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
~By Buddha ~
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
~By Flannery O'Connor ~
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
~By Thomas Mann ~
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
~By Jackie Collins ~
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
~By Lactantius ~
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
~By Jonathan Davis ~
Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
~By Kary Mullis ~
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
~By Bayard Taylor ~
I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior," he said. "You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
~By Chuck Colson ~
The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
~By Algernon Sydney ~
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.
~By Friedrich Schleiermacher ~
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
~By David Kay ~
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
~By Niels Bohr ~
To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!
~By Dabney Coleman ~
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
~By Elmer Davis ~
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
~By Shunryu Suzuki ~
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
~By Dogen ~
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
~By Xun Zi ~
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth".
~By Dan Rather ~
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
~By Maya Angelou ~
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
~By Maria W. Chapman ~
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
~By Minna Antrim ~
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
~By Norman Tebbit ~
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.
~By Tom Wopat ~
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
~By Henry Timrod ~
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
~By Peter Tosh ~
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.
~By Tom Hayden ~
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
~By Jane Austen ~
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
~By John Shelby Spong ~
And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.
~By David Selby ~
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
~By Will Rogers ~
While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.
~By Judd Rose ~
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
~By Michael Graves ~
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.
~By Jonathan Dimbleby ~
We are free to yield to truth.
~By Horace ~
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
~By James Hall ~
Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.
~By Michael Servetus ~
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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