Truth Quotes

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

I was meeting the ball better. The averages don't always tell the whole truth.

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.