Best 716 quotes in «truth is quotes» category

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

Don't close off the possibility of new truth because you've been comfortable with an old one. Life be-gins at the end of your comfort zone.

Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

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.

Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—

Errors are many, truth is unique.

Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

Everyone has Love towards some thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone has ultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.

Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.

For the truth is a terrible thing.

Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.

Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

God’s truth is this: abortion is murder.

Haters saying they wanna defeat us, they don't hate us they wanna be us. Truth is you can't join us or beat us.

Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one.

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.

How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.

I cannot agree with those who say that they have 'new truth' to teach. The two words seem to me to contradict each other; that which is new is not true. It is the old that is true, for truth is as old as God himself.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I don't know how much of a natural human I am. Y'know, the truth is, I never set out to do that, and I don't think of myself like that. I don't think like that. It's not really about promotion - I don't really understand the idea of promotion, talking to a camera for more money. That's just money. And I like money, don't get me wrong. I don't know. I don't get it. I don't understand it as much as you don't understand me, I think.

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

If the truth isn't enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God.

I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.