It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.
The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
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.
We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.
The truth just happens - lies take time to make.
The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.
I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.
When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
I don't really lie about anything, I have to be honest. I like to live with the truth.
The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.
