In truth I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her too. And so Krishna is parented by me but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is the sincere desire to find out the truth whatever it may be.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
The dreamer can know no truth not even about his dream except by awaking out of it.
It seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
Like all dreamers I mistook disenchantment for truth.
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Time whose tooth gnaws away everything else is powerless against truth.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately although it is true it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience we suffer.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth beauty liberty and equality are of infinite value but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
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.
Art is not a study of positive reality it is the seeking for ideal truth.
The truth is in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
Champagne if you are seeking the truth is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive even reckless while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because you see humor is truth.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
As a small businessperson you have no greater leverage than the truth.
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture not politics that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
In truth politeness is artificial good humor it covers the natural want of it and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Before anything else we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth justice freedom and reason.
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Experience has shown and a true philosophy will always show that a vast perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
A bad manner spoils everything even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything gilds a No sweetens a truth and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
For every good reason there is to lie there is a better reason to tell the truth.
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.