If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don’t want to hear it.
Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be ‘unseen’. There’s no ‘going back’ to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist… why would you want to?
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.
There are times a country is so tired of bull that only the truth can provide relief.
Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can’t be faked.
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it’s God’s point of view on any subject.
Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image’s deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
