In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
In life, if you don't know the truth, then you can't be free, because then you'll believe that the lies are the truth. But once we realize that when we read the Word of God, and you know the truth of who you are, then I'm not a man without arms and legs. I am a child of God.
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.
I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.
The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.
Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image's deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
The core of my writing is not art but truth.
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.