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 fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.
~By Laura Prepon ~
The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
~By Benjamin Whichcote ~
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.
~By Boyd Rice ~
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 ~
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
~By Howard Crosby ~
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 ~
As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
~By William James ~
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 ~
The well of true wit is truth itself.
~By George Meredith ~
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
~By Albert Claude ~
We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
~By John Howard ~
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
~By Abu Bakr ~
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
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 doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
~By Gilbert Murray ~
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
~By David Icke ~
Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
~By Billy Crystal ~
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
~By Dogen ~
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
~By Lee Atwater ~
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
~By Mark Twain ~
We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.
~By Franz Boas ~
I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.
~By Roone Arledge ~
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
~By Christopher Fry ~
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
~By Janis Ian ~
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
~By Lord Byron ~
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
~By Edgar Quinet ~
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 ~
The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
~By Alfred Loisy ~
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
~By Brigham Young ~
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
~By Demi Moore ~
Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
~By Frank Norris ~
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
~By Aesop ~
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
~By Susan Sontag ~
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
~By William Shatner ~
I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
~By Patrick Murray ~
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.
~By Thom Yorke ~
I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.
~By Elliot Richardson ~
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
~By David Hume ~
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
~By Voltaire ~
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
~By Simone Weil ~
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
~By Bill Cosby ~
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
~By Xenophanes ~
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
~By Lucy Stone ~
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
~By Anne Roiphe ~
If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.
~By Dave Van Ronk ~
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
~By Jim Lehrer ~
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
~By Anthony Quinn ~
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 ~
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
~By Ethan A. Hitchcock ~
Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
~By Giambattista Vico ~
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.
~By Michael Novak ~
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
~By Ron Silver ~
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.
~By Channing Tatum ~
I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
~By George Eliot ~
Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.
~By Bernard Schubert ~
Truth cannot be defeated.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
~By Simone Signoret ~
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 ~
Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
~By Fernand Leger ~
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
~By Agnes Martin ~
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
~By Dorothy Allison ~
Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.
~By Mel Gibson ~
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
~By Mark Twain ~
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.
~By Howie Mandel ~
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
~By Hiram Johnson ~
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
~By Mary Astell ~
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