The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
I don’t want to waste anyone’s time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
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.
You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.
When in doubt tell the truth.
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
You can’t get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that’s difficult to access – to a level that’s not material but spiritual.
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
All truth is not to be told at all times.
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.
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.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
The foolish man conceives the idea of ‘self.’ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‘self;’ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
We are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‘The Big Trail’ had been a success and launched me as a star.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
God’s truth judges created things out of love, and Satan’s truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
In my reviews, I feel it’s good to make it clear that I’m not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
