The color of truth is gray.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.

Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when they created these services. You walk into that and it's really like... living it. They have maintained the truth ever since the beginning.

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! It's the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

I'm a person who has always believed that you tell people the truth, and they'll make reasonable decisions. Truth is powerful.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

In truth, my Anglophilia is fundamentally bookish: I yearn for one of those country house libraries, lined on three walls with mahogany bookshelves, their serried splendor interrupted only by enough space to display, above the fireplace, a pair of crossed swords or sculling oars and perhaps a portrait of some great English worthy.

I still believe there is a lot of truth in Orthodox Judaism, but not the whole truth. Each person has his truth that he has to discover. You don't necessarily have to mold yourself to another idea of who you are.

Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

There's truth in comedy, and that resonates with people of all races.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

Sincerity is moral truth.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

I'll cough up the bitter truth right now, at the risk of losing my Feminism Club Decoder Ring: I didn't go see 'Inside Out' for Amy Poehler, though she's terrific. I went to see my dark prince, Lewis Black.

The truth is, there are probably eight more 'Snow White' scripts floating around out there. And once one 'Snow White' script got hot, other people started pulling out their 'Snow White' scripts.

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

The truth always finds it's way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

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.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.