Truth Is Quotes - Page 15

• But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Interest, Instance

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.

  Ethan Hawke

  Pay, Paid

  "Ethan Hawke Talks THE PURGE, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says about Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the government is sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Country, Patriotic, Government

  "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers". PBS Live Chat, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2010.

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• I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Careers, People, Drug

  Source: collider.com

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• The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Soul, Use, Brutal

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.30, Bethany House

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• The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.

  Marc Marcel

  Pageant, Beauty Pageant, Meant To Be

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• A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.

  Charles Haddon

  Lying, Boots, World

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• Wonder is like grace, in that it's not a condition we grasp; it grasps us. Wonder is not an obligatory element in the search for truth. We can seek truth without wonder's assistance. But seek is all we'll do; there will be no finding. Unless wonder descends, unlocks us ... truth is unable to enter. Wonder may be the aura of truth, the halo of it. Or something even closer. Wonder may be the caress of truth, touching our very skin.

  David James Duncan

  Grace, Touching, Skins

  David James Duncan (2002). “My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark”, p.88, Univ of California Press

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• The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she’s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don’t stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Teaching, Men, Lust

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• The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Heard

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

  Dick Button

  Fall, Poor, Mark

  Dick Button (1955). “Dick Button on Skates”

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• The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.

  Barack Obama

  Giving, Answers, Example

  "CBS's Smith Asks Obama About Talk Radio 'Enmity': 'Does it Bother You?'". Interview with Harry Smith, newsbusters.org. April 2, 2010.

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• God’s truth is this: abortion is murder.

  Mark Hart

  Abortion, Murder

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• Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Errors, Kind, Life Is

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.379, Vintage

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• Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Rifles, Oratory

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1206, Delphi Classics

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• Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in working for others in the world. But until we find our inner truth, our work in the world will always revolve around our 'selves'. As long as we think about the world in terms of 'self' and 'others', our actions will be selfish. Our 'self' follows us wherever we go, so positive results will be limited.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Spiritual, Lying, Selfish

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• The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Thinking, Design

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.515, Modern Library

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• Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Soul, Growth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1391, Delphi Classics

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• This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.

  Rod Serling

  Iron, Enemy, Boots

  "The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1961.

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• It's not the skunk's fault that he's a skunk or that he gives off this really bad stink. If I am a skunk, I want to live as a skunk, I want to know what my truth is, to know the person I am without fear.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Giving, Want, Faults

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• Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru's touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples. Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.

  Adyashanti

  Religious, Views, Secret

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• Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

  Guru Nanak

  Truthful, Virtue, Higher

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• The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Buried, Labor

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.582, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Attitude, People

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

  J. L. Austin

  Truth, Theory, Truism

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