Truth Quotes - Page 25

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.

Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

When you are living your truth, you will meet people who love you for that truth.

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.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth in which he believes and the grace that has transformed him.

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

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.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.