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.
