[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.
The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers make choices. The truth is that consumers prefer blockbusters.
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.
I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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.
That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.
Teddy: You don't want the truth. You make up your own truth.
Cowardly Lion: Read what my medal says: "Courage". Ain't it the truth? Ain't it the truth?
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.
