The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.