Top 484 Truth Is Quotes

The truth is, working on single camera, show or film, you have no life. You work 60-80 hours a week. You’re up before your kid gets up, and you’re home when they go to sleep.
Jaime Pressly
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
Richard Morris
The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who’ve spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who’ve been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.
Tom Robbins
The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.
Robert Kennedy
Cancer doesn’t just happen to me; it happens to my best friend; it happens to everyone who means something in my life… The truth is, it does take a village to take care of somebody who’s sick, and so we just, at all times, tried to be authentic to the actual experience we had.
Jessica St. Clair
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong – and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
I don’t feel comfortable talking about the specifics of how it all comes together, but the truth is, I don’t ever know when Michelle Obama is going to wear my clothes! She, like everyone else, picks her outfits and wears them when she wants – sometimes two or three times. It’s not ever calculated.
Jason Wu
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it’s literature.
Whitley Strieber
As truth is Washington’s worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington’s enemy.
Paul Craig Roberts
The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me – either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.
Joshua Waitzkin
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.
Gottfried Leibniz
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
Brad Holland
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
Albert Camus
I don’t read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don’t sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don’t really care what they write about me.
Ashton Kutcher
You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.
Jayson Blair
The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.
Kenko Yoshida
I've been lucky to find people who want to work with me

I’ve been lucky to find people who want to work with me, whom I respect and like, but the truth is there aren’t that many good projects out there. And we make way, way too many movies. So it’s not always going to happen with every project. But I try and wait it out.
Kirsten Dunst
The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it’s not flat. It’s rounded; it’s like a sphere, so there’s always a hidden face. There’s one that is revealed because there’s light reflecting on it, but there’s always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that’s life.
Edgar Ramirez
For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell
I don’t have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My truth is funny; I laugh with my husband every day.
Niecy Nash
The truth is, it’s not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Dan Simmons
The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.
Rory Stewart
A lot of entrepreneurs hate big companies. But if you hate them so much, why are you trying to build a new one? The truth is, as soon as a startup has any kind of success whatsoever, it will face big company problems.
Eric Ries
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins
This life is a test, and we’re put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.
Elizabeth Smart
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can’t multitask, and we shouldn’t keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.
Douglas Rushkoff
Often times we feel like either we can’t make a world of difference, or we feel that it’s not going to change anything anyway. The truth is you can change someone’s day, you can change someone’s life, but you have to show up and do what you got to do to actually see any fruit coming from it.
Nick Vujicic
The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it’s God’s point of view on any subject.
Tony Evans
The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.
Judy Greer
If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson
Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, ‘Some think a situation is a mess?’ Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
Kara Swisher
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
Jane Porter
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration’s complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
Sidney Blumenthal
The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
Alfred Loisy
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.
Joseph Fiennes
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.
Margaret Atwood
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
Mark Twain
I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.
Bonnie Raitt
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar
People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don’t. I don’t want people to think that I’m trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that’s cheap filmmaking.
Jason Reitman
The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.
Kevin Rudd
The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let’s tell their stories, too.
Zazie Beetz
The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.
Vivek Wadhwa
‘Sizwe’ is the beginning of protest theatre; ‘Nothing But The Truth’ is post-apartheid South Africa.
John Kani
Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
I’m an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.
Neal Boortz
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward Dahlberg
The truth is that I’d always wanted to go to law school.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
Terry Eagleton
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
Jorge Luis Borges
The truth is, I’ve never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that’s a good thing. You know why? Because I’m not. Wasn’t that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I’m funny!
Tracy Morgan