Truth
221 quotes: 6 by Keith Craft, 215 from other voices.
Other voices on Truth
- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.
- The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.
- The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.
- The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men.
- The most dangerous liars in the world, I have found, are not the people who lie to other people, but the people who lie to themselves.
- The only reason why I became successful was because I went towards the truth. As painful and as brutal as it is, it changed me. It allowed me, in my own right, to become the person who I am today.
- The only way to tell the truth is to speak it with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
- The things that we decide to run from are the truth. When you make excuses, you’re running from the truth.
- The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. (1955)
- The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
- The truth is you can teach any skill, but you cannot change a bad attitude.
- The truth, no matter how bad, is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run.
- The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
- The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
- The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
- The wise are those who travel through error to truth; the foolish are those who persist in their error.
- The wise try to adjust themselves to the truth, while fools try to adjust the truth to themselves.
- The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
- The world does not require so much to be informed as reminded.
- There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
- There is no fit search after truth which does not, first of all, begin to live the truth which it knows.
- There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.
- There is nothing more important than understanding how reality works and how to deal with it.
- There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
- They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer — not an easy answer — but simple.
- They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
- This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
- Those who try for bold things must perpetually occupy a cognitive dichotomy: to observe reality ruthlessly, but to never accept it.
- Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults, greater to tell him his.
- To restore a common-place truth to its first uncommon lustre, you need only translate it into action.
- Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
- Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.
- Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
- Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.Mark TwainSourced
- Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
- Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured, but only for a time.