A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday’s heresies may be tomorrow’s conventional wisdom.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Seek truth from facts.
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Truth is always a delusion.
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
There is no truth. There is only perception.
I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can… I might be in a financial review and be sketching because I find that I actually listen better when I sketch. Truth be told, there are probably more sketches in my books than there are written notes.
Truth, like a torch, the more it’s shook it shines.
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
When we look at our justice system, we have this image of a balancing scale: truth and justice, right and wrong. But for years, our system has been lopsided, where it’s not about truth and justice or balance. It’s about being tough on crime, and sometimes that means you’re putting the wrong person behind bars.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps ‘lie’ is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.
A lie told often enough becomes 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.
Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It’s not just about us, it’s not just about me, it’s not just about Rappler. Press freedom is… the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine – ‘Beauty is the splendor of Truth.’
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.
The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
I imagine I appear very outgoing, and I do enjoy people and parties and being involved in life. I am also a very private person, and I value my quiet time. I think people assume I am just a party animal, and in truth, I need to recharge my battery just like everyone else.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Tell the children the truth.
The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known – an impossibility both professionally and personally if you’re so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
