And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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.
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
Not all teammates tell the truth.
While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.
First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.
To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.
But now 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 truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!
I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
In truth, Jesus did not, in his own time, attract much notice.
I work out every day, and I eat 1,200 calories. Here's the truth - like I've said to everybody, 'Every diet works if you follow the diet.'
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.
