Quotes about Against the Truth

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. Votes: 2

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. Votes: 2

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. Votes: 2

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. Votes: 2

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. Votes: 2

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. Votes: 2

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation. Votes: 2

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. Votes: 2

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. Votes: 2

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened. Votes: 2

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information. Votes: 2

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time. Votes: 2

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Votes: 2

The truth is, consumer-grade antivirus products can't protect against targeted malware created by well-resourced nation-states with bulging budgets. They can protect you against run-of-the-mill malware: banking trojans, keystroke loggers and e-mail worms. But targeted attacks like these go to great lengths to avoid antivirus products on purpose. Votes: 2

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money. Votes: 2

Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can. Votes: 2

When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth. Votes: 2

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. Votes: 2

Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation. Votes: 1

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander Votes: 0

The truth is helpless when up against perception Votes: 0

Against an oath; the truth thou art unsure. Votes: 0

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth. Votes: 0

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. Votes: 0

I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel. Votes: 0

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth. Votes: 0

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. Votes: 0

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth. Votes: 0

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth. Votes: 0

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth. Votes: 0

Truth had me up against the ropes And semi-conscious without no boxing skills. Votes: 0

History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth. Votes: 0

Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it. Votes: 0

If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against. Votes: 0

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. Votes: 0

Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable! Votes: 0

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil. Votes: 0

But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth. Votes: 0

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth. Votes: 0

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. Votes: 0

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe. Votes: 0

A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow. Votes: 0

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions. Votes: 0

It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth. Votes: 0

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. Votes: 0

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge. Votes: 0

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. Votes: 0

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on. Votes: 0

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. Votes: 0

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference. Votes: 0

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth. Votes: 0

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths. Votes: 0

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. Votes: 0

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts. Votes: 0

In truth, there is no such thing as a "sinner" for no-one can be sinned against-least of all me. Votes: 0

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. Votes: 0

Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics. Votes: 0

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering. Votes: 0

Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency. Votes: 0

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. Votes: 0

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth. Votes: 0

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known. Votes: 0

The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it. Votes: 0

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people. Votes: 0

There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable. Votes: 0

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. Votes: 0

Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth. Votes: 0

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself. Votes: 0

Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual truth. Votes: 0

Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it. Votes: 0

It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences. Votes: 0

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution. Votes: 0

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love. Votes: 0

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. Votes: 0

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her. Votes: 0

It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil. Votes: 0

If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind. Votes: 0

Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth. Votes: 0

I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end. Votes: 0

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. Votes: 0

Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love? Votes: 0

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry. Votes: 0

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few Votes: 0

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated. Votes: 0

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth Votes: 0

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts. Votes: 0

Now i'd like to tell u i did something heroic like stand up against a raging team of fire-breathing horses with only my sword the truth is i ran. Votes: 0

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption. Votes: 0

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction. Votes: 0

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself? Votes: 0

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . . Votes: 0

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary. Votes: 0