Truths Quotes

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

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