Quotes about Great Truth

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. Votes: 2

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader. Votes: 2

Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after. Votes: 2

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. Votes: 2

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find. Votes: 2

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. Votes: 2

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that. Votes: 2

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true. Votes: 2

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true. Votes: 2

Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion. Votes: 2

Truth is a great flirt. Votes: 0

The great seal of truth is simplicity. Votes: 0

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy. Votes: 0

Hope is a great falsifier of truth. Votes: 0

It's in great joy that we grasp truth. Votes: 0

Half a truth is often a great lie. Votes: 0

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth Votes: 0

I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth. Votes: 0

there are elements of truth in all great fiction Votes: 0

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Votes: 0

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story. Votes: 0

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself. Votes: 0

I have a great life, to tell you the truth. Votes: 0

It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry. Votes: 0

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it. Votes: 0

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth. Votes: 0

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion. Votes: 0

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship. Votes: 0

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. Votes: 0

Actions speak louder than words is still the great truth about life. Votes: 0

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs. Votes: 0

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. Votes: 0

In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company. Votes: 0

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth. Votes: 0

The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement. Votes: 0

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. Votes: 0

Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself. Votes: 0

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth. Votes: 0

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. Votes: 0

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty. Votes: 0

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great. Votes: 0

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. Votes: 0

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. Votes: 0

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven. Votes: 0

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. Votes: 0

For in truth great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved. Votes: 0

Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories. Votes: 0

It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them. Votes: 0

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth. Votes: 0

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow. Votes: 0

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought. Votes: 0

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth Votes: 0

Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth. Votes: 0

The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity. Votes: 0

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth. Votes: 0

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. Votes: 0

I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love. Votes: 0

Love is the great truth we all know in our hearts and must eventually recognize. Votes: 0

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. Votes: 0

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees. Votes: 0

The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find. Votes: 0

Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound! Votes: 0

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. Votes: 0

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth. Votes: 0

The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it. Votes: 0

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless. Votes: 0

Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better. Votes: 0

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. Votes: 0

Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth! Votes: 0

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world. Votes: 0

The great truth about Christianity is not that we love God - it's that God loves us. Votes: 0

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it . Votes: 0

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. Votes: 0

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. Votes: 0

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect. Votes: 0

With them I gladly shared my all and learned the great truth that where God guides, He provides. Votes: 0

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. Votes: 0

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion. Votes: 0

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. Votes: 0

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth. Votes: 0

The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost. Votes: 0

As great as technology is, it still has it's limitations, because it's only a frame of the truth Votes: 0

I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life. Votes: 0

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing Votes: 0

It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable Votes: 0

Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear. Votes: 0

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page. Votes: 0

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth. Votes: 0

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. Votes: 0

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them. Votes: 0

The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution. Votes: 0

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can. Votes: 0

Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril. Votes: 0

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. Votes: 0

God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great. Votes: 0

I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings. Votes: 0

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth. Votes: 0

In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got. Votes: 0

The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place. Votes: 0

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. Votes: 0

Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality. Votes: 0

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards. Votes: 0

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept. Votes: 0

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. Votes: 0

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible. Votes: 0

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth. Votes: 0

Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all. Votes: 0

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. Votes: 0

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth. Votes: 0

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation. Votes: 0

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. Votes: 0

The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations. Votes: 0

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. Votes: 0

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible. Votes: 0

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month. Votes: 0

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed. Votes: 0

Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being. Votes: 0

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. Votes: 0

This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another. Votes: 0

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other. Votes: 0

One person can stop a great injustice. One person can be a voice for truth. One person's kindness can save a life. Votes: 0

You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself. Votes: 0

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. 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

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. Votes: 0

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same. Votes: 0

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith. Votes: 0

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. Votes: 0

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Votes: 0

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges. Votes: 0

The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another. Votes: 0

Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake. Votes: 0

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them. Votes: 0

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story. Votes: 0

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting. Votes: 0

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. Votes: 0

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion. Votes: 0

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct. Votes: 0

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed. Votes: 0

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them. Votes: 0

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. Votes: 0

No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished. Votes: 0

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong. Votes: 0

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word. Votes: 0

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long. Votes: 0

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. Votes: 0

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum. Votes: 0

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth. Votes: 0

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great. Votes: 0

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them. Votes: 0

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence. Votes: 0

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence. Votes: 0

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living. Votes: 0

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth. Votes: 0

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth. Votes: 0

It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth. Votes: 0

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day. Votes: 0

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it. Votes: 0

Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him. Votes: 0

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit. Votes: 0

We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care. Votes: 0

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire. Votes: 0

Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice. Votes: 0

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken. Votes: 0

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history. Votes: 0

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty. Votes: 0

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in. Votes: 0

A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation. Votes: 0

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths-it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it. Votes: 0

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it. Votes: 0

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. Votes: 0

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions. Votes: 0

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. Votes: 0

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby. Votes: 0

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it. Votes: 0

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth. Votes: 0

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth. Votes: 0

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul Votes: 0

Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept. Votes: 0

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. Votes: 0

My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of the great doctrines of Divine grace. Votes: 0

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom. Votes: 0

No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored... Votes: 0

It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then. Votes: 0

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. Votes: 0

I have been very concerned about media bias and the total dishonesty of the press. I think new media is a great way to get out the truth. Votes: 0

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. Votes: 0

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great. Votes: 0

Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. Votes: 0

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't. Votes: 0

Serving throughout the world is a great missionary force going about doing good. Missionaries teach truth. They dispel darkness. They spread joy. They bring precious souls to Christ. Votes: 0

By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures. Votes: 0

Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example. Votes: 0

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction. Votes: 0

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition. Votes: 0

Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up. Votes: 0

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind. Votes: 0

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy. Votes: 0

Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural wisdom. Votes: 0

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions. Votes: 0

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies. Votes: 0

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives. Votes: 0

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon. Votes: 0

Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self. Votes: 0

It is a great truth, " God reigns," and therefore grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord; and, therefore, no sinner on earth need ever despair. Votes: 0

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest. Votes: 0

Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth. Votes: 0

The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates. Votes: 0

A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history. Votes: 0