Mercy Otis Warren Quotes

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

Expressing truth is hard work.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

The truth is not always what we want to hear.

Truth is, of its essence, liberating, as it is possessed of no contrivance or conceit - that it provides the only genuine basis for progress and that the future can only be found in truth.

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.

Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

We're either awake or we're sleeping. During the time that we're awake, we work very hard at denying things, mainly because we have to function as people. We have to control and repress everything that we're fearful of, because it doesn't make sense to go crazy on the streets, but in reality we hide and we hide, repress and repress, our fears of the world of violence, of separation, of death, and sometimes hopes, and some things that are very joyful, reunions or all of those good things. It's only in dreams that we're really truthful with whatever hurts most; they're really very real.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.