You always try - you always serve the truth. But again - but the truth is often, you know, is often not necessarily a solid. It can be a liquid... What seems to be true is not necessarily the case when we look at it and we dissect it and take it apart, and we turn it around and we look at it from a different perspective... Whose truth are we talking about, your truth or my truth?
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Related It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER ( Perspective ) What is your take on it? It is exactly how we see it, but is not always the TRUTH. S... DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are. MONIKA ZANDS The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always... ALEX TIZON If we are seeking to serve the God of truth then we should really welcome truth from whatever source... JOHN C. POLKINGHORNE A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true STEVE MARTIN I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why?? It's the truth one road and tha... DEYTH BANGER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. DAVID HALBERSTAM I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you think little truth is not enough for you, try too much truth. The hurt from too much truth is... RAYMOND OBENG How can we know that what Jesus has shown us of God is the truth; or how do we know when we look int... R. J. CAMPBELL But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. ... PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted... DAVID ICKE If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize ... PETER KREEFT We know the truth of a matter when we are able to see and understand it. The truth does not change, ... THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani... DAVE GROHL I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. SAMUEL BUTLER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you... RASHEED OGUNLARU Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is... JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it i... ALISON LURIE Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. KHALIL GIBRAN Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. KAHLIL GIBRAN Here's the truth about the truth. If we were all a little more honest with ourselves, it wouldn't be... JOY MANISCALCO The truth may be true, but a discreet person understands that speaking the truth isn’t always help... SUSAN C. YOUNG Stop opposing the truths.The truth is truth no matter how you take it. It is not going to be changed... BIKASH BHANDARI Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next p... DANIEL ABRAHAM If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because ... M. SCOTT PECK What you perceive, your observations, feelings, interpretations, are all your truth. Your truth is i... LINDA ELLINOR I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths—it is a great truth because... M. SCOTT PECK You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been... POPE BENEDICT XVI Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. GEORGE ROBERT GISSING Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. GEORGE GISSING I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they... ALBERTO CAEIRO It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothes... MILAN KUNDERA Sometimes we believe it is truth, not because it is truth but because it has been made truth by law ... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA What comes, when it comes, will be what it is. ALBERTO CAEIRO Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field There passes for a moment the fig... ALBERTO CAEIRO The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset. But what does someone who hates and love... ALBERTO CAEIRO If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die... ALBERTO CAEIRO The truth today isn't the truth it used to be. Today's truth is the tainted truth, not the pure trut... DRAYKE POWELL Accept the universe As the gods gave it to you. If the gods wanted to give you something e... ALBERTO CAEIRO Denial can be confusing because it resembles sleeping. We’re not really aware we’re doing it unt... MELODY BEATTIE But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If n... PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA The truth is not always what we want to hear YIDDISH PROVERB And with truth have We revealed it, and with truth did it come; and We have not sent you but as the ... QURAN Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty... ERIC PARSLOW Truth is beautiful, no matter what the truth is. Even if it's scary or bad. It is beauty simply beca... AVA DELLAIRA I was born subject like others to errors and defects, But never to the error of wanting to unde... ALBERTO CAEIRO We are committed to speaking the truth, ... We must continue to tell the truth about the street if t... RUSSELL SIMMONS There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to... RENE DAUMAL And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it... RENé DESCARTES Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD You see, a truth parted with has its own way of becoming a tale. It is told so often that it stumble... ROSHANI CHOKSHI Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of yo... JACK CANFIELD If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. CRAIG GROESCHEL We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solve... M. SCOTT PECK You can run from the truth. You can run and hide from the truth. You can deny and avoid the tru... DELANO JOHNSON You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman. CAITLIN MORAN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... I often try to reassure myself by saying, "Well, at least it can´t get any worse." But the truth is... JIMMY FALLON I often try to reassure myself by saying, "Well, at least it can´t get any worse." But the truth is... JIMMY FALLON We do not like the truth because it is simple, we do not want the truth because it is hard, and we d... PAT WALSH The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you some... SOURCE UNKNOWN We often fear that the Revolution needed is too big for what we can give. Too much change is re... LUCY H. PEARCE The truth hurts. It seems nobody can handle the truth or is willing to accept the truth. MICHAEL MAGIDSON Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas ar... DAN BROWN Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you le... PHYLLIS BOTTOME If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... You want beauty,” said Hercule Poirot. “Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always ... AGATHA CHRISTIE I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the tr... ABBEY LINCOLN The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to ... ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to le... HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it i... M. RUSSELL BALLARD If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out
that there are hundreds, thous... LEO TOLSTOY We demand that sex speak the truth [...] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the dee... MICHEL FOUCAULT Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth w... ANN MARIE AGUILAR Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Somet... MICHAEL CADNUM It's very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It see... DELLA REESE ... You asked how am I?? Really?? So you care about me?? or you just decided to ask to return it bac... DEYTH BANGER Yet on some level we do know the truth. We know that meat production is a messy business, but we cho... MELANIE JOY Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it see... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be... DEAN KOONTZ
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