Best 716 quotes in «truth is quotes» category

A lot of truth is said in jest.

A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that

An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

As you get older your willingness to tell more of the truth is awakened and you don't have to think about it or imagine it because now you know this to be true.

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.

But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.

But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

But what if...what if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn’t even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through?

Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.

Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a hard-on for some product, whereas the truth is that sexuality is always a continuum, which can be characterized by reversals.

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.

Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.