To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
Truth is a tendency.
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.
Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.
Truth is what works.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.
Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.
Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
Life is full of awe and grace and truth, mystery and wonder. I live in that atmosphere.
Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth – then it’s far too late when they pass away.
I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.
I think all good reporting is the same thing – the best attainable version of the truth.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there’s a story of a personal struggle.
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered… the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith… All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Trump’s behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings. Contempt for truth and honesty, and for norms, rules and laws. A complete inability to feel remorse, or guilt.
