Truth Quotes (4996 Quotes)

In retrospect, I've been gay my entire life. It just takes some time to examine yourself and come to realize the truth.

If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions.... Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers....

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

For the rest of your life you will have to live with that, and for the rest of my life I'll never forget it because that's the truth. I don't miss anything.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

To awaken the sleeping and rouse the loitering is a work of supreme mercy, and to seek the truth in everything and everywhere, reveal fraud, foolishness and ineptitude is a work of supreme religious piety.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

People said, 'Oh, you're doing another ugly movie,' ... I said, 'No, I'm doing another film about real people, and it's not about ugly vs. anything.' It's about searching for that constant truth, and I don't think I'll be able to sleep at night if I know I didn't search for that truth and implement it. I don't know how else to do it as an actor.

The public should have the right to know if the air they are breathing can harm them. It is time for EPA to come clean. And tell the public the truth.

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

The rumor that China will devalue carries little basis in truth (for now). It seems to be largely a by-product of the devaluation of the Brazilian real.

Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of truth, from among the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing subm

We played well both offensively and defensively in the second quarter. We hit a couple of threes and that got us back. But in truth, we did just about everything possible to lose the game.

It's also quicker, cheaper and less laborious for everyone. If a client really wants a certain agency, it's more honest, ... I'm in favor of it, if it's the truth. It saves a lot of time.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furthering of truth and the well-being of humanity.

And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener We can't resist them, if they do. Let them show ever so little inclination, and men go down on their knees at once old or ugly, it is all the same. And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.

Our youth deserve to know the truth about homosexuality - that people can choose to overcome same-sex attractions and that acting on those attractions results in devastating physical, mental and spiritual consequences.

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea Breath and bloom, shade and shine, wonder, wealth, andhow far above them Truth, that's brighter than gem, Truth, that's purer than pearl, Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe all were for me In the kiss of one girl.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Look at the truth, that's what you should be fighting for.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

I think the talk began probably because we haven't scored as many poles as we did last year and we haven't been as dominant this year, but the truth is that the other teams have stepped it up,

Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.

Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth.

Light of God Almighty is a path of truth and a damnation of slavery to mankind, due to mankind's dependency on it.

It appears the economy is approaching the moment of truth. Will it double dip as in the early 1980s or continue to recovery as in the early 1990s

Everything was new to me last year. Ray criticized some things I did on the track and I'm glad he told me the truth, but I was thrown to the wolves a little bit. I feel much more comfortable out there now.

When I was growing up and going to races, I always admired and looked up to Bob. I wanted to drive a sprint car and be like him. To tell you the truth, if he was not racing, I probably wouldn't be involved in the sport.

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth, They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth

Hiro (the Crown Prince) was kind and often gave me words of encouragement. Aya (Prince Akishino) was a child who was sensitive and considerate at the same time, there were times when he seemed to keep an eye on me out of concern so that I would not fail to recognize the truth about myself. When Hiro told me that I looked young for my age, Aya came to me that night and corrected his brother's remark with a straight face, saying,

I rais'd him, and I pawn'd
Mine honour for his truth; who being so heighten'd,
He watered his new plants with dews of flattery,
Seducing so my friends; and to this end
He bow'd his nature, never known before
But to be rough, unswayable, and free.

It appears to me that there is some possibility that someone is supplying money to be given to the Black campaign. If my theory is right, we're going to have to have somebody willing to tell us the truth.

From a morale standpoint it makes sense for employees to know where they stand. Usually rumors of what companies are doing with e-mail systems are a lot worse than the truth.

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.

Some have thought deeply and explored the meaning of thy truth, and they are great I have listened to catch the music of thy play, and I am glad

The truth is that the only key to the Christian life is the life of Christ that the only solution to the many problems that thicken round our lives as we live them is to be found in the study of His life as He lived it and that we shall never begin to understand what we ourselves are until we have begun to understand what He is.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men - I be