Truth Quotes - page 82

He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation. (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think... This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact. View quote
Joanne Harris
They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them! View quote
Al-Maʿarri
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. View quote
Sid Caesar
Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil. View quote
Elizabeth Haydon
The truth is often one's best shield. View quote
James Rollins
Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind. View quote
Ahad Ha'am
All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth. View quote
Aminatta Forna
You must first of all think justly. Don't sit in judgment over others when you don't know the truth of the matter. View quote
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. View quote
Bodhidharma
There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it. (Tadeusz Borowski)
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth. View quote
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things. View quote
Ann Brashares
Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens. View quote
Ann Brashares
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. View quote
Bo Bennett
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. View quote
Wendell Berry
Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow. View quote
Veronica Franco
Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself. View quote
Max Wertheimer
The sword of Mahomet and the Coran are the most fatal enemies of civilization, liberty, and truth which the world has yet known. View quote
William Muir
My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way. View quote
Natalie Wood
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. (Edmond Halley)
It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness-temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases. View quote
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful. View quote
Paul Gascoigne
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. View quote
Henry James Sumner Maine
I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth. View quote
David Geffen