Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: truth

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Exactitude is not truth.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

We are free to yield to truth.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

When truth is on your side, you don't need support.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.