Quotes on Truth

Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on violence; on freedom, not on enslavement.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

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.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the truth about their own lives... I've come to realise that this interest in damaged, untellable stories comes from my parents.

I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one's life seem disorganized.

I know that every trial requires fairness and truth. Any trial that abandons the pursuit of truth cannot be considered fair or just.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

Comedy should speak truth to power. It should always be aimed upward. When it's aimed downward, it's called bullying.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down to earth, remolding them into practical forms, imbuing them with vitality, and then making use of them, has been a long one.