I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.
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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.
People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it's much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.
There is no original truth, only original error.
The color of truth is gray.
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.
Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents 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.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.
To meet someone who wants to fight to just tell the truth about what's happening in government... this is a real life superhero right here.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
