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Quotes About Truth

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
~ Maria Edgeworth
My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.
~ Junot Diaz
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
If there is one God, then there is only His way to attain Him, not another. One must follow that way and reject the other. Worship not him who is born only to die, but Him who is eternal and is contained in the whole universe.
~ Guru Nanak
I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
~ Bodhidharma
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.
~ Simon Greenleaf
Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating a visual bomb. In a way, he's chopped down two iconic buildings, and used our very truth imagery, to express himself. It's fascinating... I mean, dreadful.
~ Alison Jackson
Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
~ Ted Dekker
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
~ Marcus Valerius Martial
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
~ Alphonse Karr
American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
~ Elizabeth I
The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.
~ Liberty Ross
The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
~ David Letterman
I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.
~ Julia Garner
I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.
~ Owen King
The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.
~ Elijah Wood
The ID card was launched with fantastic claims about supposed benefits. In truth, it represented the worst of government.
~ Damian Green
People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter.
~ Denis Villeneuve
I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'
~ Blake Griffin
I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.
~ Michael Finkel