Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: truth

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Justice is truth in action.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

You never monkey with the truth.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Tell the children the truth.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That's fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.

When we look at our justice system, we have this image of a balancing scale: truth and justice, right and wrong. But for years, our system has been lopsided, where it's not about truth and justice or balance. It's about being tough on crime, and sometimes that means you're putting the wrong person behind bars.

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

What I respect about my dad is he comes forth, and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person. I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.