Quotes of: Truth-is Keyword

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

Harry Frankfurt

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.

Harri Holkeri

Teddy: You don't want the truth. You make up your own truth.

Memento

Cowardly Lion: Read what my medal says: "Courage". Ain't it the truth? Ain't it the truth?

The Wizard of Oz

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Lewis Thomas

The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

Rory Stewart

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Phil McGraw

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

Samuel P. Huntington

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

Terry Pratchett

The world hates the truth and all that share it, and so if you share truth eventually you will be hated by the world if you are not ready.

Auliq Ice

In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.

Life

We want our children to know and believe the one good story. Every other story is a copy or shadow of this one. Some copies of it are quite good and shout the Truth. Others see only the faintest whisper of it, or, in its absence remind us of the Trut...

Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus

Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the scene. The moment man ceases merely to live in and with reality and demands a knowledge of this reality, he moves into a new and fundamentally differe...

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms 3: The Phenomenology of Knowledge

There is a single truth, it filters through different stories and languages because people come from different cultures and speak different languages. And this truth has manifested itself through millennia, in multiple ways. Different people belong t...

C. JoyBell C.

You may boast to strangers, but tell the truth to your own people.

Croatian

If you want to hear the truth about yourself -- offend your neighbor.

Czech

If you want some lies to be believed wrap them up in truths.

Danish

The punishment of a liar is that he is never believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Hebrew