We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Truth Quotes from Lana Turner, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anderson Silva, Vincent D’Onofrio, Rabindranath Tagore. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
The truth is, sex doesn’t mean that much to me now.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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 search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
An autobiography is not about pictures; it’s about the stories; it’s about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people’s privacy.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the 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.
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.
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 are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
I don’t want to waste anyone’s time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way.
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it’s God’s point of view on any subject.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.
There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
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.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
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.
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 incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
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.
Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.
The biggest thing is the heart. If you find the heart in what you do, if it’s stage work, set work, modeling, you find the heart of it, that’s where the truth actually stems from. Our true personality shines from within.
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.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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.
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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.
There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
No one wants to hear the truth if it isn’t what they want to hear.
When you meet with someone and you try to assess whether they’re telling you the truth or not, there’s several things you can do. You judge demeanor and credibility. You look at corroboration.
John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you’ll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there’s a lot of truth to that.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
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.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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.
The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
My truth is that what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
Let me get you to understand I don’t bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I’m very honest and I always tell the truth. I’m not a liar, I’m not manipulative and I don’t stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
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.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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.
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.
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.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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.
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That’s fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.
I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Authenticity, living your truth, kindness – these are necessary virtues.
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.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
The color of truth is gray.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
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.
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.
Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you’re playing a tender love story that’s set in a coffee shop or whether you’re in ‘The Avengers,’ which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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.
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
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.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
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.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
There’s a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood – that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
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.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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.
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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 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.
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
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.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
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.
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
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.
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.
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.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
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.
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.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
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.
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
The truth does not need to be defended.
I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.
I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known – an impossibility both professionally and personally if you’re so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
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.
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.
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
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.
Truth is a pathless land.
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to 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.
The truth always finds it’s way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.
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.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
When in doubt tell the truth.
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning 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.
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.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Tell the children the truth.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
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.
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.
God’s truth judges created things out of love, and Satan’s truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
I don’t think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That’s why people write novels.
Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.
When in doubt tell the truth.
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
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.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.
There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
I think all good reporting is the same thing – the best attainable version of the truth.
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
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.
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.
If you’re not talking about the truth, I don’t even want you around me.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.
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.
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
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.
Art is a lie that makes us realize 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.
The truth is we’re all searching. We’re all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I’m by no means someone to follow.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Truth is always a delusion.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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.
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.
Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.
There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find.
In life, if you don’t know the truth, then you can’t be free, because then you’ll believe that the lies are the truth. But once we realize that when we read the Word of God, and you know the truth of who you are, then I’m not a man without arms and legs. I am a child of God.
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.
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.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.
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.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth.
To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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.
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.
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.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Truth is the best defense.
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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.
Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It’s not just about us, it’s not just about me, it’s not just about Rappler. Press freedom is… the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.
Life is full of awe and grace and truth, mystery and wonder. I live in that atmosphere.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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.
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.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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.
The words of truth are simple.
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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.
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.
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.
Facts are stubborn things.
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Truth cannot be defeated.
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.
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.
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.
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn’t much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don’t let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it’s sad to be over 60.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
There’s something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
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.
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.
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.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.
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.
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.
If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
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.
There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.
Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, ‘Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.’ People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
Country music is the people’s music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
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.
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.
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.
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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.
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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 great is truth, and shall prevail.
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
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.
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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.
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.
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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.
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.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.
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.
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.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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.
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Truth is, I love everyone that is a good person regardless of what they look like, walk like, or who they love.
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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.
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
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.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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.
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.
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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.
Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember.
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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.
I just believe in speaking truth and probably that is why leaders are scared of my statements.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
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.
A lot of truth is said in jest.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
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 sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
The well of true wit is truth itself.
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
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.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal 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.
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.
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.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it’s the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That’s where I get to delve into the characters’ minds and hearts. That’s where they become living, breathing beings to me.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Exactitude is not truth.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.
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.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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.
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
