Truth Quotes

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

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

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

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 entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

The color of truth is gray.