Quotes About Truth

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Deed, not words shall speak me.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

It's only words... unless they're true.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

I am righteous and not afraid to speak my truth. My delivery might not always be as diplomatic as I would like it to be, but my words are truthful - spoken from the heart and to the point.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

The words of truth are simple.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

When you repeat yourself so many times, even if you're speaking the truth, the repetition starts to feel false. Sometimes, you just feel like the words you're speaking, even if they once had meaning, have lost it. And that makes you feel kind of silly.

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Let deeds match words.