3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.
3 December 2020 Nikolai Berdyaev There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
3 December 2020 John Jay Chapman Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same – hardihood. Give them raw truth.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
3 December 2020 Dietrich Bonhoeffer Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
3 December 2020 Shel Silverstein Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.
3 December 2020 Hugh Walpole In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
3 December 2020 June Jordan To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way.
3 December 2020 Cathy Rindner Tempelsman The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn’t really a liar after all. He simply can’t control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
3 December 2020 Robert Kiyosaki A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.
3 December 2020 Bob Kane I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.
3 December 2020 Alice Miller I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
3 December 2020 Peter Abelard It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
3 December 2020 Jawaharlal Nehru Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
3 December 2020 Flannery O'Connor I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else’s. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there’s no truth.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
