Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: truth

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

To tell the truth, I'd join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn't join a band with Paul McCartney, but it's nothing personal. It's just from a musical point of view.

I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power.

Sincerity is moral truth.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it's the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That's where I get to delve into the characters' minds and hearts. That's where they become living, breathing beings to me.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Trump's behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings. Contempt for truth and honesty, and for norms, rules and laws. A complete inability to feel remorse, or guilt.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.

The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say - to get out of the lie.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It's less sweep you off your feet and more sweep the kitchen four times a day. Like everything good in life, it's 98% back-breaking work and 2% moments that make the work worthwhile.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother. And it's a very powerful relationship if it's healthy.

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That's the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.

There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now.

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?

There is no truth. There is only perception.

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.