T Quotes
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“The truth may roar, but it's roaring does not terrify the blameless. Guilty conscience needs neither a critic nor an accuser. Remember, the truth has no aiding crutches; once it is limping, its name is "a lie'.”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“The truth might be a bit hard to swallow at times, but unlike a lie, the truth is never rotten.”
“The truth might hurt, but it is never your enemy.”
“The truth might hurt, but it's the only thing that matters.”
“The truth might hurt but lies hurt even more.”
“The truth might hurt for a moment, but a lie never stops hurting.”
“The truth might hurt sometimes , but when you realized it was to keep you awake instead of dosing into a selfish world”
“The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.”
Source: A Caribbean Mystery
“The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own false need to be popular, tells the Truth whether it falls on fertile or stony ground. Such a teacher is the salt of the earth, though few know it. If you think the world is delirious as is, you would find it intolerable without his healing influence.”
“The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson”
Source: Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.”
Source: Dickinson
“The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.”
“The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else -- or else we could not endure.”
Source: The Heart Is Half a Prophet
“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”
“The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“The Truth never flaunted a sign.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“The truth never had any shades of grey – there was always a discernible line between black and white.”
Source: Unreasonable Force
“The truth never hurts — much.”
“The truth never lies.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which is not translated into words or images, that which remains concealed and unverified, which is perhaps why we do recount so much or even everything, to make sure that nothing has ever really happened, not once it's been told.”
Source: A Heart So White
“The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.”
“The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters”
“The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.”
“The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.”
“the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.”
“The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“The truth of a story depends on who is telling it”
“The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.”
Source: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921
“The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.”
“The truth of actually working on a movie set is that you're in the midst of a logistical nightmare. There are so many things going on. There are many factors that keep your ideal scenario from ever happening. And you're rarely going to get that.”
“The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.”
Source: The Daughter of Time
“The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.”
“The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.”
Source: The old moderns: essays on literature and theory
“The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.”
Source: The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959
“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.”
Source: The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics
“The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation.”
“The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.”
“The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.”
“The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.”
“The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us when they do.”
“The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.”
“The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.”
Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.”
“The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count.”
“The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.”
“The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.”
“The truth of it was he didn't want her. He wanted Mary Kate with every cell of his body. He missed everything about her. The feel of her sleeping at his side. Her gentle snores. Her soft brown curls tickling his nose enough to wake him from a sound sleep even on nights when he needed it most. Her smile. The smell of her. At odd moments he thought he had heard her laughter, or he'd catch a glimpse of her in the corner of an eye, but all of it was a lie, and every time it happened it was as if someone had ripped a deep wound in his chest. The pain was raw enough to make him want to take a razor to his wrist, but each time he considered acting upon the idea something stopped him, and so, he stumbled on barely alive and wishing for an end. At times he couldn't breathe, couldn't move without wanting to scream.”
Source: Of Blood and Honey
“The truth of it was that time was healing his outer wounds, but time with Jacob was healing the ones inside.”
Source: Lifemaker