Top 688 Truth Quotes

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
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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.

Rene Descartes
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.

‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Philip James Bailey
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

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.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

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.

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

Richard Baker
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.

Adlai Stevenson II
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday‘s heresies may be tomorrow‘s conventional wisdom.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

In a time of universal deceittelling the truth is a revolutionary act.

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.

The color of truth is gray.

I think all good reporting is the same thing – the best attainable version of the truth.

Carl Bernstein
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.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei
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.

Max Planck
Authenticity, living your truth, kindness – these are necessary virtues.

Merle Dandridge
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.

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.

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.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We’re all limited by our perspective.

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.

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

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.

Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don’t understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

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.

You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

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.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

I detest jokes – when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn’t know it’s funny or doesn’t treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it’s a sort of rage against society.

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.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.

Future
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Helen Hayes
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.

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 in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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.

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.

Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible – to live in the truth, as I say – to get out of the lie.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.

Malcolm X
The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it’s God’s point of view on any subject.

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.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Shunryu Suzuki
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.

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.

Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around.

Frank A Clark
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Hosea Ballou
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.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.

Thiruvalluvar
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

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.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

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.

Sincerity is moral truth.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

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.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K Jerome
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.

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.

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.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

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.

Katherine Mansfield
Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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.

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.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Camillo di Cavour
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

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.

Vanessa Kerry
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.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

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.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Leo Rosten
I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.

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.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Horace Mann
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

The lowest form of popular culturelack 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.

Carl Bernstein
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

The lawyer‘s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we’ve developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Malcolm Muggeridge
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.

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 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.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find.

Truth is a pathless land.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

George A Smith
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

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.

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.

Hans Eysenck
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.

Patrick Murray
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

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.

Helen Hayes
The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.

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.

Sheri Fink
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

The words of truth are simple.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

Jacques Prevert
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

I don’t think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That’s why people write novels.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‘This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.’ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

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.

Robert Capa
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Arthur Balfour
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

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.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

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.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Joseph Roux
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.

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.

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.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Jules Renard
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.

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.

Pietro Aretino
The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiram Johnson
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.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

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 Trailhad 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.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew‘s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

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.

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.

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.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

If you’re thinking of coming to America, this is what it’s like: you’ve got your Comfort Inn, you’ve got your Best Western, and you’ve got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody’s very fat, everybody’s very stupid and everybody’s very rude – it’s not a holiday programme, it’s 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?’

Brigham Young
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.

I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Alan Cohen
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

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.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

Emily Murphy
All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

I’m not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that’s the best way.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

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.

Victor Borge
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.

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.

John Masefield
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Benito Mussolini
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

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.

John Churton Collins
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.

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.

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.

Ward Churchill
Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

You never monkey with the truth.

Ben Bradlee
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.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

For great is truth, and shall prevail.

Thomas Brooks
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.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

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.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

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.

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.

Christina Rossetti
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

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.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

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.

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.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Horace Walpole
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Alan Cohen
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Stan Laurel
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

Truth never changes. Truth always sets people free.

Cynthia Robinson
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

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.

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frank Norris
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Dorothy L Sayers
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.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

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.

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.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy
This is my truth, tell me yours.

Aneurin Bevan
When in doubt tell the truth.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Bruce Lee
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Christopher Fry
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gottfried Leibniz
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.

Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.

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.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Life is full of awe and grace and truth, mystery and wonder. I live in that atmosphere.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.

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.

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.

Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.

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.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold
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.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

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.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Ludwig Borne
It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Like the sand and the oyster, it’s a creative irritant. In each poem, I’m trying to reveal a truth, so it can’t have a fictional beginning.

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.

Candice Millard
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

George Canning
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

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.

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.

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.

Louis Aragon
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Seek truth from facts.

Deng Xiaoping
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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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.

Alain Badiou
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.

Michael Musto
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 wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

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.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

George Gissing
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

The truth does not need to be defended.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Irving Langmuir
The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

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.

Marie de France
No one wants to hear the truth if it isn’t what they want to hear.

Aaron Brown
Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Harlan Howard
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.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Arthur Rubinstein
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.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Mark Van Doren
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.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

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.

Dorothy Thompson
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

William Sloane Coffin
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Sid Caesar
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.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

William Shenstone
You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

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.

Stella Adler
I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

James Callaghan
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

Alice Koller
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

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.

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.

Alexis Carrel
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.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

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.

Louis Kahn
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Richard Rorty
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 in doubt tell the truth.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Henrik Ibsen
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal 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.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Helene Deutsch
If you’re not talking about the truth, I don’t even want you around me.

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.

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.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Mary Baker Eddy
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

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.

Matthew Arnold
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen
The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

Corliss Lamont
Adversity is the first path to truth.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Lawrence Durrell
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.

Bill Copeland
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.

Alice Cary
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.

For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Paul Eldridge
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.

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.

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.

Future
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.

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.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

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.

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 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.

Carl von Clausewitz
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Exactitude is not truth.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Truth is always a delusion.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Claude Adrien Helvetius
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.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

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.

Petrarch
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.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

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.

Greg Anderson
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.

Morris West
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.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Luther Burbank
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O’Connor
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.

John Calvin
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

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.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

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.

James Nachtwey
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.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Horace Mann
The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It’s less sweep you off your feet and more sweep the kitchen four times a day. Like everything good in life, it’s 98% back-breaking work and 2% moments that make the work worthwhile.

Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

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.

It’s always good news when you’re closer to the truth.

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.

Auguste Rodin
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.

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.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

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.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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.

Pierre Bayle
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

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.

Alice Cary
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.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

Benjamin E Mays
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.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Truth is a tendency.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Hosea Ballou
The truth always finds it’s way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.

Tyler Hamilton
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.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer‘s hand.

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.

Niels Bohr
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.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

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.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

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.

B C Forbes
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.

Hypatia
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.

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.

Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Georges Braque
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.

Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.

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.

Pablo Neruda
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.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry
There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

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.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take 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 are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

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.

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.

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.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Franz Marc
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom – they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen
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 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.

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.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

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.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

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.

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.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Adolf Loos
I don’t want to waste anyone’s time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

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.

Ida Tarbell
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.

Flannery O’Connor
The truth is we’re all searching. We’re all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I’m by no means someone to follow.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

Larry Gelbart
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.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Emile Zola
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 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.

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.

Paul Eldridge
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.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

James Callaghan
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.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Christopher Marlowe
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.

Ludwig Borne
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

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.

I think I’ve been through all the phases of the sport. I won, I lost, I got injured. Now I get to do what I love, with my truth, without worrying about what people will say or things like that.

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.

Antisthenes
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.

To tell the truth, I’d join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn’t join a band with Paul McCartney, but it’s nothing personal. It’s just from a musical point of view.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always 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.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

The truth is, sex doesn’t mean that much to me now.

Lana Turner
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.