Best 10477 quotes in «truth quotes» category

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.

Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the treatment will be painful. Let sister, or brother, or friend, tell me that I must never look to be well. When the time approaches that I am to die, let me be told that I am to die, and when.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

Existence has no personality. No question of personalities, it simply is whatsoever it is. To experience existence as it is, is to know the truth.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.

Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to accomplish the Great Work there must be three love, intelligence, and activity. And yet love is ever the root and the source.

For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

For truth there is no deadline.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.