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Truths Quotes (page 116)

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. We can be sure that whoever sneers at her name as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past -- whether... Hans Urs von Balthasar
Thomas S. Monson quote: "We do not find truth groveling through error."
We do not find truth groveling through error. Thomas S. Monson
Victor Hugo quote: "Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth,..."
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind. Victor Hugo
Philip Guedalla quote: "Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth..."
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. Philip Guedalla
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words. Jack Kerouac
When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. Terry Prachett
Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth. Bob Marley
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth,..."
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. Fyodor Dostoevsky
E. M. Forster quote: "If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to..."
If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run E. M. Forster
But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them."Viola: "Thy reason, man?"Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them. William Shakespeare
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. Frederick The Great
Stephen Colbert quote: "They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and..."
They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am. Stephen Colbert
What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false. Nikos Kazantzakis
The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already... begun to be warped, had been subtly manoeuvred in a certain direction. Despair of objective truth had been increasingly insinuated into the scientists; indifference to it, and a concentration upon mere power, had been the resul? The very experiences of the dissecting room and the pathological laboratory were breeding a conviction that the stifling of all deep-set repugnances was the first essential for progress. C. S. Lewis

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