Quotes About Truth

It's not your name that's important. It's who you are. It's living a life of truth, a life without fear

He knew I loved him to desperately to ever be a reliable witness

Real journeys may also be true in the mythic sense [Betty Levin, "Polar Bears and Lemmings"].

Let it be the one business of my life to glorify Thee by every word of my tongue, by every work of my hand, by professing Thy truth, and by engaging all men, so far as in me lies, to glorify and love Thee.

We are guilty of idolatry every time we think about God in any way other than the way Scripture portrays Him.

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Raw humanity offends our sensibilities.

I know what you want to hear, doctor, but I'm sorry, you're not going to pry some sordid confession out of me.

On the line beside Describe your family, I wrote, "Bad." What is your favorite subject in school? "None." List three of your favorite activities. "Soccer, ballet, and fighting." Two of those favorite activities were lies but one of them was the truth. I am fond of fighting.

And then she got a bad, bad feeling because she realized she had been wrong. You can fool a person. You can fool a dog. You can fool a cat or a horse or a teacher or a friend. But you cannot ever fool a heart.

Everybody thinks my sister is an angel straight down from heaven, but I know better.

Mr Boultbee seems to have done us a good turn," said Nicholas. "I gather his sermons were not much liked." No; we got very tired of Africa and I didn't feel that what he told us rang quite true. He said that one African chief had had a thousand wives. I found that a little difficult to believe." Well, we know what men are," said Jane casually, surprised that Miss Dogget, with her insistence on men only wanting one thing, should have found this difficult to believe.

However romantically ill John might look, it seemed that he had nothing worse than an unromantic cold.

You've done her a service to teach her that romantic love is largely made of illusion." [said Mina.] "Is it?" Alessandra asked, unable to suppress a worried sigh. Mina looked at her as if she knew exactly what Alessandra was thinking. "I said 'romantic love,' my dear--not true love." "But how can one know," asked Alessandra, "one from the other?" "True love," said Mina, "is something that reveals itself only with the passage of time.

By doubting we come to inquire and by inquiring we percieve the truth

And the truth has made us one.

Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

It had ceased to bother me that Michele didn't believe a word that I said. It gave me the liberty to lie whenever I chose.

A historian cannot pick and choose his facts; he must deal with all the evidence.

They come about through confusing the two kinds of truth telling: the declaration of opinion and principle and the recounting of history.

I lived in the present. That's supposed to be a good thing, you know, an ideal, according to modern psychology. Odd, because the truth is, one lives in the present when the past is too bad to remember and the future too dreadful to contemplate.

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.