Here we have the best Truth Quotes from famous authors such as Aldous Huxley, Robert Collier, Kim Jong-un, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rene Descartes. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
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.
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.
Authenticity, living your truth, kindness – these are necessary virtues.
Facts are stubborn things.
Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can’t be faked.
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.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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.
I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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.
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
A lot of truth is said in jest.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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.
A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
Sincerity is moral truth.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics – one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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.
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.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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.
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.
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
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.
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.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
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.
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.
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find.
Truth is a pathless land.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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.
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
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.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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.
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.
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.
The words of truth are simple.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
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.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
I’m not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that’s the best way.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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.
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions – in a Freudian way – to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
There’s no truth anymore.
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
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.
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.
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
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.
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.
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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 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.
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine – ‘Beauty is the splendor of Truth.’
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.
Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.
All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?
I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
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.
Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.
I’m not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that’s the best way.
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.
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
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.
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
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.
Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don’t care.
We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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.
Truth is the best defense.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
You never monkey with the truth.
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.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
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.
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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.
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
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.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.
Truth never changes. Truth always sets people free.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
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.
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.
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.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
When in doubt tell the truth.
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to 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.
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.
The truth doesn’t change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That’s the thing about the truth. That’s the thing about real. It doesn’t change and it doesn’t have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it’s still real. It’s still the truth.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.
It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you’ll be okay in the end.
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it. You find that out really fast.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Seek truth from facts.
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.
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, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
The object of the superior man is 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.
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.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
The truth does not need to be defended.
The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.
No one wants to hear the truth if it isn’t what they want to hear.
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Country music is three chords and the truth.
The truth is the Vintage Vitor never left.
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.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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.
When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Justice is truth in action.
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 best mind-altering drug is the truth.
I just believe in speaking truth and probably that is why leaders are scared of my statements.
I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
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.
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.
I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth.
Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I’ve seen again and again.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
When in doubt tell the truth.
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.
If you’re not talking about the truth, I don’t even want you around me.
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.
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.
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society.
The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
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 cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
Country music is the people’s music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life… But I’m not a romantic. I’m just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.
I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don’t give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you’re not telling the truth. So it’s like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it’s too much for you.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
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.
Exactitude is not truth.
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
Truth is always a delusion.
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
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.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
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.
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
When the truth is spoken, it doesn’t need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.
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.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Truth is a tendency.
The truth always finds it’s way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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.
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart.
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.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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.
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Silence is the mother of truth.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
There’s something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
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.
Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
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.
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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.
Tell the children the truth.
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.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.
To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
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.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Time discovers truth.
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom – they are the pillars of society.
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.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.
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.
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.
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
I don’t want to waste anyone’s time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
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.
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else’s. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there’s no truth.
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
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.
Truth is what works.
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.
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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.
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.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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.
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
The well of true wit is truth itself.
Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.
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.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
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.
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Such truth, as opposeth no man’s profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
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.
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
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.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
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.
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn’t send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the 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.
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.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
The truth is, sex doesn’t mean that much to me now.
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
