Truth has sharp teeth, so do not expect anything beautiful (to see) when it smiles to you.
The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.
The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing.
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities.
What people want out of their politicians is exactly the same thing that I want - somebody who is approachable, willing to work, and tells me the truth as they see it.
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert.
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.
It seems, by today's standards, that it's better to seek approval than to tell the truth. It's better to utter sweet nothings than to boldly say something of substance.
The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.
I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, 'I am a superhero,' but the truth is that we're all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
