Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and prop...
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.
The song 'My Way' is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that what you're singing about is the truth. It's a man who is very proud of having achieved everything that he's achieved his way.
Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.
The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.
When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you wou...
The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.
And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.
Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to 'sit down and shut up' over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed b...
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
The object of the superior man is truth.
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
