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Truth

«In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves»
«In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity»
Author: Chamfort | About: Falsehood, Love, Truth | Keywords: absurdity
«If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you»
Author: Charles Gordon | About: Truth | Keywords: if not, supporting
«If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth»
«In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking»
Author: John Lubbock (Biologist, Politician) | About: Truth | Keywords: generally, in truth, lacking
«Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under the guise of truth, through the same inlets by which truth is admitted, it is ever diffident of its att»
«In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.»
Author: Walter Cronkite (Journalist) | About: Truth | Keywords: both, seeking, sides, story
«If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep»
Author: Yiddish Proverb | About: Dreams, Truth
«In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Truth | Keywords: likewise
«If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Truth