Quotes About Truth

It's a cliché, but also a deep truth (as cliché's tend to be), that you can't love another person very well if you don't love yourself.

One day it will become exceedingly clear what the best course of action is for you. This truth will be so unmistakable that a sense of peace will pervade you. The voices in your head that have been driving you mad will give way to a deep and profound knowing. But just like expecting beautiful flowers to grow in a garden filled with pernicious weeds, it's important to clear the way for our wisdom to emerge.

He had not healed Bobby because there was nothing wrong with him.

If compliance will get them what they want, they will feign a cooperative spirit. If they think lying is necessary, they will say whatever needs to be said. If it seems profitable to keep secrets or to reveal only partial truths, they will do that.

The more a man learns, Dickens said, "the better, gentler, kinder man he must become. When he knows how much great minds have suffered for the truth in every age and time… he will become more tolerant of other men's belief in all matters, and will incline more leniently to their sentiments when they chance to differ from his own.

That's easy," Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ...

Then why on earth had she never told anyone about these things? Matthews asked. Linda didn't miss a beat. "Because no one ever asked," she said. "You're the first that ever did.

The more a man learns, Dickens said, "the better, gentler, kinder man he must become. When he knows how much great minds have suffered for the truth in every age and time…he will become more tolerant of other men's belief in all matters

If you think about all the things you've done in your life and the real, honest-to-God truth as to why you did them, chances are you'll feel kinda sad too.

She said that in writing anything, you must be perfectly honest.

Al-Tabari understood that human truth is always flawed—that realities are multiple and that everyone has some degree of bias. The closest one might come to objectivity would be in the aggregate, which is why he so often concludes a disputed episode with that time-honored phrase "Only God knows for sure.

The glow of delicioous tension coudn't be faked, not at any price. So when you leave, that's when you realise you've been living in a lie.

We must judge all teaching by the Word of God.

Are you a journalist?" "I'm a doctor." "Good. We need doctors, Wallahi ." Sadoon scowled. "Journalists only tell lies and smuggle carpets.

Why did you become a journalist?" "Better than working for a living.

But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

But to ignore a truth can prove just as dangerous as twisting a truth. If we ignore the Bridegroom attribute of our Lord, we will miss out on the fullness of what it means to have real intimacy with Him.

God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word.

Memory is tricky-memory for certain facts and or details is probably more imaginative than anything, but the important thing is to keep the feeling the story has. I never forget that: the feeling one has of the story is what you must strive to bring forth faithfully.

The powers who controlled the United States didn't want the people to know their history. If the people knew their history, they would realize they must rise up.

at that time she had not yet seen that the horizon was an illusion and

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.