Truth Quotes

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.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.