We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

It gets embarrassing to say something untrue because you put it online and everyone knows about it, so it's better to tell the truth.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

Seek truth from facts.

We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more.

I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.