Truth Quotations | Page 4

The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are....

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit.

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

My theory is the root of a country artist is truth and honesty. For me, I look at Sam Hunt. The truth and the honest thing is we have southern roots, we were raised in a southern way, but we listen to Drake and other stuff, too.

Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.

To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

There's a part in a woman's soul, God has given it to every woman, and it's the part where you know whether he's telling the truth or not. Women see red flags.

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.

When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.

I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.

Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.

The truth is that I am a very independent person and I've always been. That probably damaged some of my relationships with men.

I think some women try to make you feel you're not all female because you haven't given birth. There are a lot of prejudices. Some women think women who have animals are deeply sad, because what they really want is a child. Mind you, there's probably an element of truth in that.

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.

We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth....

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.

But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

The truth is, I don't really have a type of girl.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

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.

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.

I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

No matter what you go through, if it's the truth, 9 times out of 10, somebody else has been through the same thing or is currently going through the same thing.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

When who you are naturally is not only considered a sin, but you're reviled for being that human being and you don't have any control over it, there are lots of issues that come into play. And it takes a lot of presence, determination, courage and space to figure out how to land in that truth regardless of what anyone around you thinks about it.

The upshot here is that Gil Scott-Heron is still a warrior, even if the front lines have moved. He's made a record not without hope but which doesn't come with any easy or comforting answers. In that way, the man is clearly still committed to speaking the truth.

I can cite numerous sponsors at different places in my career that made a huge difference for me just in terms of pulling me aside and giving me a tip or some coaching, or just watching what I was doing and not being afraid to tell me the truth about it.

The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down to earth, remolding them into practical forms, imbuing them with vitality, and then making use of them, has been a long one.

There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well.

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are more useful than others, and opportunity cost is near the top.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.

An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

For instance, I have never believed that there is only one person for each person in the world. It doesn't make the least sense to me. However, in reality, I fell in love at 45 and I am absolutely certain that my now husband is the only man in the world for me, a truth I find both ridiculous and uplifting.

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 politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity....

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.