Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
When truth is on your side, you don’t need support.
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
