Truths Quotes

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

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.

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.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

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

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.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

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

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.