Truth
221 quotes: 6 by Keith Craft, 215 from other voices.
Other voices on Truth
- Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
- Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
- One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
- One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
- One truth can illume the whole world, but a thousand errors can only shadow a little corner.
- Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes. "If you want to astonish the whole world," said Rahel, "tell the simple truth."
- Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
- Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
- Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
- Pleasure can be supported by illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
- Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument: not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
- Principle is a passion for truth and right.
- Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
- Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.
- Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.
- Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy.
- Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.
- Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- Salute truth, even if she comes in rags. Hate error though she comes clothed in tradition, riding with a coach.
- Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
- Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
- Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
- Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.
- Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
- Speak not at all till you have somewhat to speak; and care simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
- Speak your truth, even if your voice shakes.
- Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
- [T]ruth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.
- Tell the truth about what you are feeling. Tell the truth about what you are thinking. Tell the truth about what you are doing and why.
- Tell the truth. That way you don’t have to remember a story.
- The best way to come to truth is to examine things as they really are, and not to conclude they are, as we have been taught by others to imagine.
- The candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.Orison Swett MardenSourced
- The deepest truths are the simplest and the most common.
- The discovery of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.
- The essence of a lie is in deception, not in words.
- The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
- The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
- The first ingredient in conversation is truth; the next, good sense; the third, good humor; and the fourth, wit.