Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: truth

No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there's a story of a personal struggle.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

The words of truth are simple.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

There's is a fine line between living one's truth and looking good.

There's no point in saying anything but the truth.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.