Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: truth

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

Light is the symbol of truth.

The biggest thing is the heart. If you find the heart in what you do, if it's stage work, set work, modeling, you find the heart of it, that's where the truth actually stems from. Our true personality shines from within.

What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It's imperative in any initiative that is undertaken that punishment be real and that there be truth in sentencing, and that the truly dangerous offenders - the recidivists and the career criminals - be put away and kept away.

I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.

The truth is we're all searching. We're all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I'm by no means someone to follow.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.