Quotes About Truth

The truth is: criminals are a police problem; individuals accused of crime are mine.

Whether you're faking one or the other it isn't worth the state you get yourself in.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

But the Bible isn't mainly about you and what you should be doing. It's about God and what He has done.

On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in a checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.

We know the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not.

We grope after the Spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of Spiritual is Real.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

But what about the secret I bear? I asked. Tell it to the world, he advised. And that is what I am doing.

Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins.

Suçlad???m kiÅŸilere gelince: Hiçbirini tan?m?yorum. Onlar? hiç görmedim. Kendilerine kar?? ne h?nc?m var, ne kinim. Onlar benim için topluma kötülük eden kiÅŸilerden, kafalardan baÅŸka birÅŸey deÄŸildir. Benim burada yapt???m ÅŸey gerçeÄŸin ve adaletin ortaya ç?kmas?n? h?zland?rmak için devrimci bir araca baÅŸvurmaktan baÅŸka birÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Evet! Bu utanç verici gösteriyi izliyoruz, borçlar ve suçlar alt?nda ezilmiÅŸ kiÅŸiler suçsuz ilan ediliyor; buna kar??l?k onurun ta kendisi, yaÅŸam? lekesiz bir adam cezaland?r?l?yor. Bir toplum bu noktaya geldiÄŸi zaman, art?k çürümeye baÅŸlam?? demektir.

En sonra, birinci savaÅŸ konseyini, bir san??a gizli kalan bir belgeye dayanarak hüküm giydirdiÄŸi için hukuku çiÄŸnemekle suçluyorum. Ä°kinci savaÅŸ konseyini de üstten gelen emre uyarak, bir suçluyu, suçunu bile bile temize ç?kar?p a??r adli suç iÅŸlemekle, böylece birinci konseyin yasaya ayk?r? davran???n? örtbas etmekle suçluyorum.

Je l'ai dit ailleurs, et je le répète ici : quand on enferme la vérité sous terre, elle s'y amasse, elle y prend une force telle d'explosion, que, le jour où elle éclate, elle fait tout sauter avec elle.

GerçeÄŸi gömmeniz boÅŸuna, topra??n alt?nda yol al?yor; bir gün, her yandan f??k?racak, öç bitkileri olarak aç?lacakt?r.

Even Émile Zola was reduced to disingenuously commenting on the work's formal qualities rather than acknowledging the subject matter. He paid tribute to Manet's honesty, however, "When our artists give us Venuses, they correct nature, they lie. Édouard Manet asked himself why lie, why not tell the truth; he introduced us to Olympia, this fille of our time, whom you meet on the sidewalks.

Understand this! A year ago General Billot and Generals de Boisdeffre and Gonse knew that Dreyfus was innocent, and they have kept this frightful thing to themselves. And these men sleep and have wives and children whom they love!

The obligation of a writer is to live out loud.