There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
~By Nikolai Berdyaev ~
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
~By Albert Camus ~
For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.
~By Robert Kocharian ~
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
~By Ernst Fischer ~
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
~By Herman Melville ~
I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
~By Benjamin Bratt ~
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
~By George Santayana ~
Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
~By Charley Reese ~
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
~By Herbert Gold ~
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
~By Ludwig Borne ~
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
~By Francis Bacon ~
It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.
~By Emily Murphy ~
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
~By George Gissing ~
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
~By Frederick Sanger ~
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
~By George Eliot ~
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.
~By William Herschel ~
One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.
~By Jimmy Sangster ~
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together.
~By Dudley North ~
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
~By Albert Pike ~
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
~By Molly Ivins ~
Tell the truth.
~By Ian Hunter ~
Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
~By Rand Beers ~
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
~By Mencius ~
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence.
~By Michael Medved ~
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
~By Arthur Rubinstein ~
I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
~By Bob Graham ~
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
~By Dave Barry ~
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.
~By William John Wills ~
I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.
~By David Geffen ~
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
~By Richard Bach ~
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 ~
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 ~
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
~By Dick Clark ~
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
~By Lord Byron ~
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
~By Edward Albee ~
Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.
~By Neal Boortz ~
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
~By Johannes Kepler ~
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
~By Huston Smith ~
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
~By Abdolkarim Soroush ~
Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
~By Bob Graham ~
The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
~By Bob Graham ~
The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.
~By David Axelrod ~
Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
~By Jeff Koons ~
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.
~By William Scott ~
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
~By Ellis Peters ~
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
~By John Mellencamp ~
I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.
~By David Geffen ~
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
~By Frank Herbert ~
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
~By Margaret Lee Runbeck ~
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
~By Henry Rollins ~
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
~By Frank Luntz ~
There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.
~By Michael J. Tucker ~
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
~By E. O. Wilson ~
I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
~By Katherine Anne Porter ~
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.
~By James Collins ~
We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
Light is the symbol of truth.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
~By Confucius ~
It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.
~By Stanley Fish ~
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
My body gets weak without truth.
~By Andrei Platonov ~
The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.
~By John Conyers ~
See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.
~By Paul Begala ~
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
~By John Bradshaw ~
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
~By Herbert Simon ~
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
~By Hunter S. Thompson ~
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
~By Kary Mullis ~
But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.
~By John Abizaid ~
Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.
~By Mort Sahl ~
The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
~By Fred Barnes ~
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
~By Jean Rostand ~
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
~By Andy Rooney ~
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
~By Henry George ~
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
~By Franz Marc ~
I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
~By Bear Bryant ~
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
~By Paddy Ashdown ~
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