Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.
The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Humility is truth.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Sincerity is moral truth.
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.
Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.
In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
Usually we are saying only part of the truth.
The truth is, I probably would be dead if I had become a star, because at that point I was so closeted and so afraid of people of finding out I was gay. There was no telling what would have happened.
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
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.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders.
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
