The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image’s deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
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 is that you shouldn’t match your insides to other people’s outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: ‘Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.’ ‘I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.’
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.
The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Let me get you to understand I don’t bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I’m very honest and I always tell the truth. I’m not a liar, I’m not manipulative and I don’t stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.
In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
The truth is that the right decision often can’t be led with either head or heart exclusively.
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong – and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.
The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it’s God’s point of view on any subject.
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
The truth is that those who join gangs – more often than not they are young men in their later teens – often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.
Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.
If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed.
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn’t so easily bent.
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
A lot of truth is said in jest.
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That’s fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.
