Truth Quotations | Page 2

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.

Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.

I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger.

The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That's the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Sometimes people don't like me because I'm too honest; I speak the truth.

Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.

Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.

I didn't want to be an actress when I was younger - not even when I was older, to tell you the truth.

A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated.

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.

The only way people can really be excellent is with truth, so you have to have a CFO who will have the intellectual capacity and conviction to tell you you're wrong and try to support that with data.

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

The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed.

Show me any health professional - great and not so great - who says they don't make mistakes or haven't made one in years, and I'll show you someone who has trouble admitting the truth.

Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.

Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.

You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

There are times where people ask for a lock of your hair, but the truth is I have a lot of gratitude for my fans.

To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.

I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

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.

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War.

You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that.

The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying to say, might want to go in a certain direction, and while it may seem like it has resonance with things that are happening topically, you kind of want the world you're creating to have its own internal logic.

I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for.

The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.

I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.

The truth is, if you're lucky enough to work, you're a lucky actor.

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

Dictionary: Opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great actors have been and are exhibitionists.

I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

It's the truth and people need to hear the truth.

It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.

The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids.