Words matter. These are the best Truth Quotes from famous people such as Marie Curie, Francois Rabelais, Lao Tzu, Saint Teresa of Avila, Oprah Winfrey, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
I am aware that a philosopher’s ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
When in doubt tell the truth.
Truth is, I love everyone that is a good person regardless of what they look like, walk like, or who they love.
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
An autobiography is not about pictures; it’s about the stories; it’s about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people’s privacy.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
We live in such a gullible world. Anything that’s written, anything that’s posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
The truth is more important than the facts.
There’s something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Facts are stubborn things.
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Truth is the best defense.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.
I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
The truth always finds it’s way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.
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.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
I don’t want to waste anyone’s time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.
When in doubt tell the truth.
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
You can’t get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that’s difficult to access – to a level that’s not material but spiritual.
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.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
All truth is not to be told at all times.
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
The foolish man conceives the idea of ‘self.’ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‘self;’ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
We are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‘The Big Trail’ had been a success and launched me as a star.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
God’s truth judges created things out of love, and Satan’s truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
In my reviews, I feel it’s good to make it clear that I’m not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
Truth is a tendency.
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.
Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.
Truth is what works.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.
Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.
Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
Life is full of awe and grace and truth, mystery and wonder. I live in that atmosphere.
Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth – then it’s far too late when they pass away.
I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.
I think all good reporting is the same thing – the best attainable version of the truth.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there’s a story of a personal struggle.
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
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.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered… the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith… All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Trump’s behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings. Contempt for truth and honesty, and for norms, rules and laws. A complete inability to feel remorse, or guilt.
I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‘Man, I said too much.’ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.
Truth cannot be defeated.
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they’re not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people’s lives than just truth. I can’t stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth – share, not give. I think that’s what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.
I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn’t much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don’t let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it’s sad to be over 60.
You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
If you’re not talking about the truth, I don’t even want you around me.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what’s needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Authenticity, living your truth, kindness – these are necessary virtues.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
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.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.
The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.
I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
Time discovers truth.
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
All religion seems to need to prove that it’s the only truth. And that’s where it turns demonic. Because that’s when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image’s deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
The truth is that you shouldn’t match your insides to other people’s outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: ‘Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.’ ‘I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.’
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.
The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Let me get you to understand I don’t bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I’m very honest and I always tell the truth. I’m not a liar, I’m not manipulative and I don’t stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.
In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
The truth is that the right decision often can’t be led with either head or heart exclusively.
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
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.
Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.
The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it’s God’s point of view on any subject.
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
The truth is that those who join gangs – more often than not they are young men in their later teens – often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.
Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.
If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed.
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn’t so easily bent.
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
A lot of truth is said in jest.
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That’s fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.
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.
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday’s heresies may be tomorrow’s conventional wisdom.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Seek truth from facts.
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Truth is always a delusion.
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
There is no truth. There is only perception.
I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can… I might be in a financial review and be sketching because I find that I actually listen better when I sketch. Truth be told, there are probably more sketches in my books than there are written notes.
Truth, like a torch, the more it’s shook it shines.
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.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
When we look at our justice system, we have this image of a balancing scale: truth and justice, right and wrong. But for years, our system has been lopsided, where it’s not about truth and justice or balance. It’s about being tough on crime, and sometimes that means you’re putting the wrong person behind bars.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps ‘lie’ is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It’s not just about us, it’s not just about me, it’s not just about Rappler. Press freedom is… the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine – ‘Beauty is the splendor of Truth.’
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.
The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
I imagine I appear very outgoing, and I do enjoy people and parties and being involved in life. I am also a very private person, and I value my quiet time. I think people assume I am just a party animal, and in truth, I need to recharge my battery just like everyone else.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Tell the children the truth.
The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known – an impossibility both professionally and personally if you’re so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
The truth is, sex doesn’t mean that much to me now.
We don’t go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
Brethren, let us mind our own business – that is, the calling the Lord has called us to – to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, ‘What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?’
Everyone with a cell phone thinks they’re a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they’re a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what’s far out and what’s reality. And they have no dedication to truth.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.
The truth is the Vintage Vitor never left.
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother. And it’s a very powerful relationship if it’s healthy.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It’s a platform where we could offer information, but it’s also an escape.
To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it’s the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That’s where I get to delve into the characters’ minds and hearts. That’s where they become living, breathing beings to me.
The color of truth is gray.
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in the truth.
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
Silence is the mother of truth.
The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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.
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny.
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
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.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That’s the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Even when we talked about child labor, we were frowned upon. But then you know that you have to speak the truth irrespective of the repercussions.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
A new 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.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The object of the superior man is truth.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic – that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.
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.
The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you’ll be okay in the end.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
The core of my writing is not art but truth.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
Real intimacy depends on truth – lovingly told – especially in the bedroom.
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.
All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?
Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.
The truth is we’re all searching. We’re all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I’m by no means someone to follow.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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.
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
There’s no truth anymore.
Gossip is called gossip because it’s not always the truth.
Exactitude is not truth.
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
