Truth Quotes

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.

I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.