Truth Quotes
Truth, examined from a few angles.
This set opens with the idea that a story's meaning ultimately depends on the relationship between reader, writer, and character, before turning to a pointed geopolitical observation about oil and foreign intervention. For more grounded reflections, see Heart.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes...
It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence in our shared lives. In their very local way they show us the global truth of...
I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.
I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I...
Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say that. The truth is that the Constitution is not one that morphs. It's an enduring Constitution,...
I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
