Truth
221 quotes: 6 by Keith Craft, 215 from other voices.
Other voices on Truth
- Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.Miguel de CervantesCommonly attributed
- Truthfulness is at the foundation of all personal excellence.
- Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvest and food.
- Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.
- We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
- We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
- When everyone agrees with you, it's time to recheck your facts.
- When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
- When in doubt, tell the truth.
- When the Church and the world can jog along comfortably together, you may be sure there is something wrong.
- When you don’t know what to do, tell the truth.
- When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
- Who has deceived thee so often as thyself?
- Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
- You cannot afford to learn to speak anything but the absolute truth.
- You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
- You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.
- The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.