Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. Helen Hayes
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. Tracey Emin
I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth. Rihanna
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. Anne Lamott
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. Menachem Begin
In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God. Robert Baden-Powell
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf
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. Iyanla Vanzant
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth. Michelle Malkin
I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say that. The truth is that the Constitution is not one that morphs. It's an enduring Constitution, not a changing Constitution. That is what I've meant when I've said that the Constitution is dead. Antonin Scalia
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. Franz Schubert
Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth. Alan Rudolph
The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa. Wesley Clark
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. Benjamin Disraeli
I will tell the truth wherever I please. Mary Harris Jones
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that. Tom Shadyac
I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth. Stanley Kramer
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light. Saint Bernard
People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager. Pep Guardiola
It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better. John Wycliffe
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. Joseph Conrad
I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it. Ace Frehley
The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe. Valerie Plame
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. Harry Browne
No force can conquer the service personnel and people who, in support of their great leader, have turned out in the struggle to defend their country with confidence in the validity of their cause and their own strength - this is a law and a truth taught by history. Kim Jong-un
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you. Rachael Taylor
You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic. Chris Christie
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. Ravi Zacharias
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side. Adolf Loos
We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of. Phil McGraw
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. Konrad Lorenz
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. John F. Kennedy
Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth. Wadada Leo Smith
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. Xun Kuang
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. Ursula K. Le Guin
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
The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave. Tamara Mellon
I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better. Glen Campbell
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. Umberto Eco
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. Tom Stoppard
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth. Tim Walker
Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference. Mort Sahl
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. Henrik Ibsen
The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure. Joshua Waitzkin
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. George Bernard Shaw
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. Albert Camus
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. John Stuart Mill
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side. Andrew Taylor Still
Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance. Vernon Howard
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. Phaedrus
The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. Walt Whitman
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. Lewis Mumford
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. Francis Bacon
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. William C. Bryant
The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness. Roland Allen
I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, and I was nominated for an Academy Award. My head got inflated. My friends were the real ones who said, 'You're acting different.' But the truth is that I don't need that, because I don't get out of hand. Leonardo DiCaprio
The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries. Naveen Jain
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. Clarence Darrow
Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth. Arthur C. Nielsen
We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are? David Carr
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. Felicity Huffman
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. Thomas Jefferson
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. Maya Angelou
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. Richard Avedon
Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth. Justin Timberlake
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. Confucius
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. Elizabeth Bowen
People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb. Eazy-E
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs. William Osler
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. Leonardo da Vinci
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all. Dixie Lee Ray
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. James Allen
I trust you: That's huge. That's truth. That's real love. Everyone uses 'I love you' so loosely. Justin Chatwin
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything. Lee Atwater
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. Jiddu Krishnamurti
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Mark Twain
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. Blaise Pascal
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. John Shelby Spong
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. Soren Kierkegaard
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. Terry Eagleton
I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth. Jimmy Swaggart
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. George Bancroft
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us. Mahatma Gandhi
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. Brian Eno
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. Carl Bernstein
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. Fernand Leger
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Jesus Christ
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. Mahatma Gandhi
The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. Adam Johnson
I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love. Helen Hunt
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. Mahatma Gandhi
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. Louisa May Alcott
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. P. T. Barnum
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. Khalil Gibran
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. William Osler
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree. Annie Besant
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. Claude Adrien Helvetius
The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels. David Suzuki
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. Eric Carr
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. Jeremy Clarkson
The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied with anything finite. Giordano Bruno
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. Malcolm X
Justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. T. E. Lawrence
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.' William Wallace
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. William Temple
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society. Henrik Ibsen
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. Khalil Gibran
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. Robert Menzies
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. Aldous Huxley
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. Rabindranath Tagore
The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body. Twyla Tharp
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
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew Arnold
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Jung
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. Boris Becker
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. Henry Louis Gates
Wonder Woman, she's amazing. I love everything that she represents and everything that she stands for. She's all about love and compassion and truth and justice and equality, and she's a whole lot of woman. Gal Gadot
I have very little fashion sense, and to tell you the truth, I give it very little thought. I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can. Most of my clothing is either black, grey, or dark blue, and I don't really wear a lot of colours. But I do like jackets. I have a little bit of an obsession with them. Leonardo DiCaprio
Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it. Joseph Smith, Jr.
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. Emile Zola
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. John F. Kennedy
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. Louis Farrakhan
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. Jurgen Klopp
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. Niels Bohr
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. John Keats
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. Ada Lovelace
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are. Stephen Covey
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. John Locke
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! Don Miguel Ruiz
Science is but an image of the truth. Francis Bacon
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome
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
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. Albert Camus
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. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. Bruce Lee
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. Michel de Montaigne
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. H. L. Mencken
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. Ansel Adams
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests. Charley Reese
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. Maya Angelou
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. Wendell Berry
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. Marilynne Robinson
People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness. Howard E. Wasdin
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth. Tom Wopat
I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'. Tony Oller
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. Herman Melville
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth. Charles H. Townes
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. John Cleese
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead. Luther Burbank
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
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. William Blake
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. Albert Einstein
The truth is an anti-war statement in itself. Henry Rollins
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. Khalil Gibran
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Mary Todd Lincoln
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. Will Rogers
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. Jane Fonda
This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality. Tariq Ramadan
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies. Don Miguel Ruiz
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself. J. M. Coetzee
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us. Jawaharlal Nehru
The words of truth are always paradoxical. Lao Tzu
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. Pablo Picasso
Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves. Protagoras
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. Jean-Luc Godard
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. John Stuart Mill
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. Christopher Marlowe
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work. Krzysztof Kieslowski
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Winston Churchill
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. Friedrich Nietzsche
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons. Isabel Allende
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. Jean Cocteau
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other. Benjamin E. Mays
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. John Locke
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. John Locke
The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it. Conor McGregor
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? Lord Byron
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. William Sloane Coffin
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. Henry Louis Gates
When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art. John Trudell
The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star. Sarah Carter
When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally 'less fortunate' only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive. Ben Shapiro
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. Cyrano de Bergerac
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. Viktor E. Frankl
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. Nick Vujicic
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. Randy Pausch
As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't. Pamela Meyer
I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it. TobyMac
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. William Hague
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
Silence is the mother of truth. Benjamin Disraeli
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. Henry A. Wallace
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe. Sam Harris
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. Stella Adler
Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly. Joan Didion
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. F. H. Bradley
The color of truth is gray. Andre Gide
Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much. Donald Trump
This is my truth, tell me yours. Aneurin Bevan
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth. Ramakrishna
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. Frank Ocean
The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one's life seem disorganized. Marjory Stoneman Douglas
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive. David Mamet
We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down... I'm not going to go anywhere. Maxine Waters
I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism. Brittany Murphy
I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth. Ram Dass
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. Ramakrishna
Peace if possible, truth at all costs. Martin Luther
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone. Robert Kiyosaki
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. H. P. Lovecraft
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. William Bernbach
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future. Janine Benyus
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! Anthony de Mello
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. Gerrit Smith
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. Barack Obama
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. Henri Frederic Amiel
Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening. Joyce Meyer
Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is. Don Miguel Ruiz
I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts. Grace Gealey
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Tom Hiddleston
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. Madeleine L'Engle
We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means. Vincent McNabb
I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth. Brad Pitt
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. Thomas Jefferson
Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship. Pope Francis
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir
Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver. Vernon Howard
Learn what is true in order to do what is right. Thomas Huxley
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. Kelly Miller
I am pleased, with a feeling of good fortune, to be from Selanik. If you want to know the truth better, I feel that my chest is overflowing with a feeling of pride. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
It does not require many words to speak the truth. Chief Joseph
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. Abraham Lincoln
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. Jules Verne
The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise. Vivek Wadhwa
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. Edward de Bono
Truth is immortal; error is mortal. Mary Baker Eddy
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. Shel Silverstein
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that. Miriam Makeba
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. Wole Soyinka
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. Anais Nin
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. Frank Sinatra
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. Blaise Pascal
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie. Barbara Kruger
The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth. Ken Starr
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. Michel Foucault
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. Miguel de Cervantes
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible? Queen Elizabeth II
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. Alanis Morissette
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. Joseph Conrad
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. Don Miguel Ruiz
Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves. Marcel Duchamp
It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth. Kate Winslet
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. Henry David Thoreau
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music. Jimi Hendrix
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. Willa Cather
The truth is always more heroic than the hype. Jessica Lynch
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. Bobby Darin
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. Arthur Schopenhauer
The truth needs so little rehearsal. Barbara Kingsolver
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. Drake
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. Sam Harris
The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a candle to the dark, as Carl Sagan would say. We aren't sure what will work, when, or how much. But for all that uncertainty, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. Kyle Hill
Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by. Mark Frost
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda. Charles Lindbergh
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. Andre Gide
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. Albert Camus
The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can. Q'orianka Kilcher
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. Emile Zola
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. H. L. Mencken
Tests conducted before I graduated predicted a future for me in journalism, forestry, or the teaching of music; persons who know me well could recognize some truth in those seemingly errant prognoses. J. Michael Bishop
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. Elie Wiesel
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. George Canning
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth. Peter Abelard
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. Tacitus
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. Patrick Murray
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Adlai E. Stevenson
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time. Gerald R. Ford
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. Nikola Tesla
Adversity is the first path to truth. Lord Byron
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. Andre Malraux
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. Tom Hanks
The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine. Maajid Nawaz
I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job. Samuel Goldwyn
A lot of truth is said in jest. Eminem
Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing. Rosa Luxemburg
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. C. S. Lewis
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. Gottfried Leibniz
One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't. Lin Biao
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. Aldous Huxley
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Isaac Newton
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. George Gissing
People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands. Abbe Pierre
Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized. Adolfo Perez Esquivel
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. Deepak Chopra
A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun. Jack White
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. William Hazlitt
The first casualty when war comes is truth. Hiram Johnson
All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. Albert Camus
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. Charles Stanley
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck
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. Derek Cianfrance
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. Isaac Newton
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. Khalil Gibran
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. Charlie Chaplin
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way. Devdutt Pattanaik
Truth never damages a cause that is just. Mahatma Gandhi
When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo. Norman Schwarzkopf
I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go. Samira Wiley
There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro. John Garfield
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. Franklin D. Roosevelt
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. William Shenstone
What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It's imperative in any initiative that is undertaken that punishment be real and that there be truth in sentencing, and that the truly dangerous offenders - the recidivists and the career criminals - be put away and kept away. Janet Reno
Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. Margaret Lee Runbeck
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words. William Moulton Marston
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. Mahatma Gandhi
I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself. Emile Zola
The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods. George A. Moore
With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth. Channing Tatum
The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power. Leymah Gbowee
The truth is that health-care reform will always be a nuisance, with version 2.0 followed by next year's 2.1. As long as it boosts productivity, it's worth it. Jim Cooper
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. James A. Baldwin
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. Arthur Schopenhauer
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. Herman Melville
Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man. Conor McGregor
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. Jesus Christ
Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best. Gene Robinson
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Umberto Eco
I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you. Rohit Shetty
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. Chuck Palahniuk
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. Ice Cube
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. Lucretia Mott
There's no point in saying anything but the truth. Amy Winehouse
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. Carol Ann Duffy
That's why we trust the Bible - it speaks to both realities: the unchanging human condition and the constantly changing cultural conditions. It speaks to all generations. We trust the Bible because it's the truth. It was the truth when it was written, and it is the truth now. It's the truth now because it's living truth. Mike Yaconelli
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. Ramakrishna
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. Aristotle
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. Michelle Obama
Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix. Gail Collins
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. Margaret Fuller
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. Lillian Hellman
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much. Penelope Cruz
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Frank Norris
The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall. Len Goodman
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. John Charles Polanyi
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. Leonard Cohen
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth. Anne Hutchinson
The truth is lived, not taught. Hermann Hesse
I welcome the role that people of faith play in building Britain's future - and the Catholic communion in particular is to be congratulated for so often being the conscience of our country, for helping 'the least of these' even when bearing witness to the truth is hard or unpopular. Gordon Brown
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. Muhammad Ali
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. Thomas Malthus
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. Matt Mullenweg
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. Andre Maurois
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. Adolf Loos
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are. Faith Hill
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. Steven Biko
Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth. Chuck Berry
Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin. M.I.A.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. Tony Robbins
As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection. Ellen G. White
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? Guru Nanak
We have art in order not to die of the truth. Friedrich Nietzsche
The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain why I want to re-live those old days, to tear the Truth out of the past so that all men shall see plainly, perhaps someone will say to me, 'Oh, the War! A tragedy - best forgotten.' Henry Williamson
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. George Harrison
A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth. Jon Kabat-Zinn
There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth. Thomas S. Monson
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. Bikram Choudhury
I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth. Adolfo Cambiaso
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
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. John Grierson
When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer. Patrick Lencioni
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. Lord Byron
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. Aristotle
Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job. Thom Yorke
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. Gore Vidal
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. Carl Jung
At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it. Yair Lapid
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing. Robert Collier
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. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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. Thomas Aquinas
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. Arthur Miller
The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people. George Lucas
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. Francis Bacon
The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso
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
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. Horace Walpole
It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas. Mischa Barton
I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth. Jewell Parker Rhodes
Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. Max Weber
I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion. Platon
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth. John Mellencamp
Truth is on the side of the oppressed. Malcolm X
Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that. Gunter Grass
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. George Berkeley
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. Walter Scott
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. Marcel Proust
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
I think the truth is black-and-white. Nancy Grace
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. James Hall
In truth, my Anglophilia is fundamentally bookish: I yearn for one of those country house libraries, lined on three walls with mahogany bookshelves, their serried splendor interrupted only by enough space to display, above the fireplace, a pair of crossed swords or sculling oars and perhaps a portrait of some great English worthy. Michael Dirda
The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself. Daniel Craig
The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view. Che Guevara
I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality. Jane Velez-Mitchell
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. Rodney Dangerfield
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. Johannes Kepler
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. Don Miguel Ruiz
I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it. Martin Henderson
No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love. Anna Held
When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like 'Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out. Megyn Kelly
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. Voltaire
Facts are many, but the truth is one. Rabindranath Tagore
Country music is three chords and the truth. Harlan Howard
The truth is that men are tired of liberty. Benito Mussolini
Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism. Randi Weingarten
Tell the children the truth. Bob Marley
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. Thomas Becket
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. Albert Einstein
When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal. Steven Pinker
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. Chanakya
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Rabindranath Tagore
I think it's time for the media and our leaders to get real and start telling the truth about the impact of adultery on our national life. Mike Pence
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. Georges Bataille
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Thomas Jefferson
Half a truth is often a great lie. Benjamin Franklin
I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth. Mara Brock Akil
I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world. Buddha
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. Bayard Rustin
Saying I took my clean water for granted is an overstatement. To tell you the truth, I didn't even think about it. Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists. Matt Taibbi
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. Jeremy Bentham
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. Will Durant
Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music. Yanni
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things. Richard Flanagan
I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive. David Shields
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. Simone de Beauvoir
The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on. Robin Williams
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. Andy Rooney
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. Winston Churchill
I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast. Paul Thomas Anderson
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. Buddha
Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth. Stephen Vincent Benet
The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little. Kevin Rudd
My longing for truth was a single prayer. Edith Stein
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. Arthur Conan Doyle
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. Epictetus
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. Abraham Lincoln
The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy. Pope Benedict XVI
When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones. Huston Smith
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. Edgar Allan Poe
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. Malcolm X
I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me. Yulia Tymoshenko
My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people. Frank Peretti
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. Frank Norris
Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. Martin H. Fischer
I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free. Andrew Wyeth
The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done. Wendy Davis
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived. Said Nursi
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward. Candice Millard
Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth. John Boyega
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. Warren Buffett
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
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. Emily Dickinson
When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.' Randy Pausch
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. William Shakespeare
Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance. Craig Bruce
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. Barbara Kingsolver
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it. P. T. Barnum
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. Alveda King
When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing. Amber Frey
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. Ken Kesey
Truth comes out in wine. Pliny the Elder
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. Ursula K. Le Guin
The truth is, even those who think Dreams only happen to someone else carry a Dream hidden deep in their heart, just hoping it can come true. Bruce Wilkinson
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. Douglas Adams
Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea. William Howard Taft
Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age. Amy Tan
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. George Orwell
Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed. Lynn Shelton
Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can. Eliezer Yudkowsky
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
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. Robert Green Ingersoll
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Buddha
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Charles Spurgeon
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. Carl Jung
The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking. Wayne Dyer
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. Annie Leibovitz
History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it. Sabine Baring-Gould
It's always good news when you're closer to the truth. Fabiola Gianotti
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. Elvis Presley
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. Brene Brown
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. Charles Stanley
Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity. Kenneth Scott Latourette
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. Simone de Beauvoir
People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth. Russell Brand
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. Robert Capa
In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty. Romesh Gunesekera
The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared. Thomas S. Monson
I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power. George Harrison
Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop. Mark Udall
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. Coco Chanel
I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth. Peter Thiel
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. H. P. Lovecraft
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. Mahatma Gandhi
The bud of victory is always in the truth. Benjamin Harrison
Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around. Yoko Ono
A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected. William Shockley
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain
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. Umberto Eco
Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? Nicolas Cage
The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity. Herbert Hoover
Truth is a tendency. R. Buckminster Fuller
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. Horace Mann
If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident. Mary Baker Eddy
This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation. Bill Frist
I can cite numerous sponsors at different places in my career that made a huge difference for me just in terms of pulling me aside and giving me a tip or some coaching, or just watching what I was doing and not being afraid to tell me the truth about it. Denise Morrison
Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son. Chris Christie
You never monkey with the truth. Ben Bradlee
Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that. Nathan Lane
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
As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether. Ramana Maharshi
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Profound questions regarding the purpose of life have led many individuals and families throughout the world to search for truth. Often that search has led them to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to the restored gospel. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth. Denis Villeneuve
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. Igor Stravinsky
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. George Lucas
My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.' Pink
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. Ambrose Bierce
Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself. Lindsay Wagner
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. Josh Billings
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Jiddu Krishnamurti
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. Frederick Law Olmsted
The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people. Sojourner Truth
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
As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth. John Legend
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
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. Ludwig Borne
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. Mahatma Gandhi
Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy. Roy Orbison
I've always told the truth. I think that's been part of the foundation of my career. I don't put myself above people. I don't put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune. Iyanla Vanzant
Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to 'sit down and shut up' over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people. Cynthia McKinney
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth. Helene Deutsch
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. Otto von Bismarck
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. Alexis Carrel
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. Plato
People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar. Cate Blanchett
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. Hunter S. Thompson
The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more. Lionel Messi
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. Anna Jameson
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular. Heather Dubrow
The truth is more important than the facts. Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence. Michael Medved
There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find. George Michael
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. Mahatma Gandhi
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. Charles Dickens
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
I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe. Jane Goodall
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. Nikola Tesla
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. Voltaire
Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it? David Baldacci
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Winston Churchill
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. Anais Nin
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. Ronald Fisher
The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions. Ann McLane Kuster
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy. Bob Schieffer
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. Henry George
I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination. Susan Howatch
Live truth instead of professing it. Elbert Hubbard
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. D. H. Lawrence
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 E. Stevenson
The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. Goldie Hawn
The universe is transformation: life is opinion. Marcus Aurelius
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Stephen King
I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home. Jackie Robinson
A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated. Bassem Youssef
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. Khalil Gibran
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie. Paul Scott
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. Abu Bakr
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. J. K. Rowling
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. Jamie Brewer
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. Denis Waitley
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. Hannah Arendt
God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. Hussein of Jordan
Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better. Astro Teller
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth. Stan Laurel
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. Victor Hugo
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit! David Kirk
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. Hunter S. Thompson
Facts are stubborn things. Ronald Reagan
What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL. Peter Landesman
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. Missy Elliott
Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble. Chuck Schumer
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom. Maria Weston Chapman
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
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. Harry S Truman
I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard. Helen Hunt
You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect. Hope Solo
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Hannah Arendt
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. Sue Monk Kidd
At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission. Matisyahu
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. John F. Kennedy
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
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. Arthur Conan Doyle
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Gerald R. Ford
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? Anthony Hope
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. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. Kim Il-sung
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. Jean Rostand
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. June Jordan
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite. Kim Jong-un
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. Robert H. Schuller
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. Ismail Haniyeh
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. Charles Dickens
I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad. Kevin O'Leary
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. Flannery O'Connor
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. 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
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. Miguel Syjuco
It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie. Michael Jackson
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle
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
The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. Richard Roeper
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Charles Bradlaugh
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it. Avigdor Lieberman
Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things. Lucy Stone
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. Alan Cohen
Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth in which he believes and the grace that has transformed him. Pope John XXIII
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth. Joseph P. Bradley
We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. Christina Hoff Sommers
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. William Butler Yeats
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. Antoine Lavoisier
The Bible is the fountain of truth. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that. Ang Lee
'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. Brene Brown
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always. M. Russell Ballard
The intuition of free will gives us the truth. Corliss Lamont
The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be. Hayley Williams
Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state - something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. Lewis Carroll
The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical. Scott Turow
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. Mason Cooley
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. David Bowie
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Albert Einstein
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. Wole Soyinka
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. Hosea Ballou
The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best. Sia
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. Bo Bennett
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' Abraham Lincoln
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? Curt Weldon
There are times a country is so tired of bull that only the truth can provide relief. Molly Ivins
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. Stephen Levine
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves. Bryant H. McGill
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. Laurence J. Peter
The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original. Aaron Koblin
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. Anne Lamott
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. Harry S Truman
What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an inevitable corollary to this supreme truth comes the fact of the brotherhood of man. Annie Besant
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Unknown
There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well. Sue Monk Kidd
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. Bob Marley
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. Rabindranath Tagore
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. Joseph Prince
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. Joan of Arc
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
No legacy is so rich as honesty. William Shakespeare
Truth is powerful and it prevails. Sojourner Truth
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. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities. Geoff Johns
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. NeNe Leakes
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself. James Allen
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. Henry Rollins
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. Feisal Abdul Rauf
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. Liu Xiaobo
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. Soren Kierkegaard
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. Wallace Stevens
Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! Swami Sivananda
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
You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art. Jason Isbell
There is no truth. There is only perception. Gustave Flaubert
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser. Roy H. Williams
I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules. Ellen DeGeneres
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'. Dan Rather
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. Maya Angelou
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie? Friedrich Nietzsche
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. Camillo di Cavour
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. Aldous Huxley
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. Khalil Gibran
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. Hu Shih
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. Patrick Henry
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. Harry S Truman
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. Christopher Columbus
We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom. Deborah Tannen
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. Bob Dylan
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. David Icke
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. Mahatma Gandhi
You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off. Bryan Cranston
I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up. Scott Ritter
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite. James Broughton
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. Mahatma Gandhi
To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War. Ewa Kopacz
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. Jean-Paul Sartre
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. Cal Thomas
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. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. Albert Camus
The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end. Don Lemon
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. Thomas Merton
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. Peace Pilgrim
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. Sidney Poitier
When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold. Ravi Zacharias
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. Carl Jung
Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow. Veronica Franco
There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth. Alice Cary
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. Joseph Roux
If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together. Sam Kinison
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection. Henry B. Eyring
The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life. Neale Donald Walsch
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. Lech Walesa
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. Charles Darwin
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. Norman Schwarzkopf
It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences. Mariella Frostrup
In 1977, when I became Speaker, I started meeting with TV reporters each morning when I arrived at work. Later in the morning, I would hold a news conference before the House opened. I always told the truth and almost never answered with 'no comment.' Thomas P. O'Neill
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. Chanakya
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth. J. Michael Straczynski
Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort. Tariq Ramadan
A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. Isaac Newton
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. C. S. Lewis
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. Louis Kahn
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. Warren Bennis
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. Tacitus
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. Rabindranath Tagore
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. Coco Chanel
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. Khalil Gibran
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. Mahatma Gandhi
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. David Hume
Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself. Martin Lawrence
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. Alexander Pope
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes. Maimonides
Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise. Saul Kripke
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds. Bela Lugosi
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Vladimir Lenin
It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. Gene Simmons
We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external. Josh McDowell
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats
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. Brian Blessed
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. James A. Garfield
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Adlai E. Stevenson
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. Friedrich Nietzsche
We're in this amazing frontier of transparency. WikiLeaks. Edward Snowden. 'Westworld' is reflecting that with these robots gaining consciousness. Them coming into consciousness is almost like us, human beings, coming into the truth of the fact that government is corrupt. Police are corrupt. Banks are corrupt. Etcetera, etcetera. Thandie Newton
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. Thomas Jefferson
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. Barbara Kingsolver
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. Rumi
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. Angelina Jolie
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them. Seamus Heaney
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf
To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth. Nawal El Saadawi
Tell the truth, but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson
I started singing before I started talking. And that's the God's honest truth. I think it was something that I've always loved to do, even if I wasn't good at it. I just loved ballads. Millie Bobby Brown
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. Herodotus
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. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now. Lana Turner
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. Pablo Picasso
To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved. Charles Spurgeon
The object of the superior man is truth. Confucius
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees. Rutherford B. Hayes
If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power. Imre Lakatos
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities. Aristotle
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. C. S. Lewis
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth. Paddy Ashdown
Truth is a great flirt. Franz Liszt
Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? Marcel Duchamp
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. George Carlin
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. Walter Benjamin
The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves. Marilyn Monroe
Seek truth from facts. Deng Xiaoping
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. Aesop
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. Siri Hustvedt
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. Gao Xingjian
I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth. Venus Williams
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. Alan Watts
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. Busta Rhymes
The Holocaust of Nazi Germany is certainly no less of a historic crime than the Holocaust that went on for centuries against African-Americans. That process of reparations, and a truth and reconciliation discussion, was extremely helpful in the country of Germany, and we need to have that here. Jill Stein
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. Giambattista Vico
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. Bayard Rustin
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable. Hypatia
Truth disappears with the telling of it. Lawrence Durrell
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Buddha
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Lord Byron
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy
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. Aesop
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. Michael Jackson
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. Walter Cronkite
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. James E. Faust
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. John Locke
A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation. Donald Tusk
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. Rupert Sheldrake
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. Frank A. Clark
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. H. Rap Brown
The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. Jose Rizal
The first reaction to truth is hatred. Tertullian
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. John Ruskin
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. J. Edgar Hoover
The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy. Paramahansa Yogananda
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. C. S. Lewis
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. Helen Thomas
Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit. Paramahansa Yogananda
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Stephen King
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. Friedrich Nietzsche
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. Petrarch
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. Tom Bodett
Sincerity is moral truth. George Henry Lewes
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. Richard P. Feynman
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. Mark Twain
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. Horace Mann
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. Ayn Rand
The truth touches us. We try to be guided by this contact. Pope Benedict XVI
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. Swami Vivekananda
Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach. Prince
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. Isaac Newton
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete. Vaclav Havel
Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things. Bernard Sahlins
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. Dorothy L. Sayers
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
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. Martha Gellhorn
When in doubt tell the truth. Mark Twain
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. James D. Watson
People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. Paul Mooney
We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only. Oriana Fallaci
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. Sara Teasdale
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. Mother Jones
All truth is not to be told at all times. Samuel Butler
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. Abraham Maslow
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. Rabindranath Tagore
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. Haile Selassie
The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth. David Ogden Stiers
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. Virginia Woolf
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. Molly Ivins
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. Oprah Winfrey
The truth is, your identity already has been stolen. Frank Abagnale
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. Nicolaus Copernicus
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. Bodhidharma
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. Richard Rorty
I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth. Guillermo del Toro
You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth. Mary J. Blige
If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news. Jennifer Morrison
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. Alfred Nobel
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation. Gerard Way
You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don't have a friend who's going to tell you the truth every time something comes up, you feel like he's not a true friend. Donald Driver
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now. Guru Nanak
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. Swami Vivekananda
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. Linus Pauling
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. Tom Waits
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. Simone Weil
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. Shana Alexander
Light is the symbol of truth. James Russell Lowell
It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.' Caterina Scorsone
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. Aldous Huxley
We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore. Javier Bardem
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. Sophocles
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. Aesop
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. Muhammad Ali
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
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. Hans Eysenck
Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth. Cory Booker
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. Samuel Johnson
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. Gloria Estefan
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder. Jussie Smollett
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. John Keats
Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth. Eazy-E
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around. Jane Goodall
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. David Douglass
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. Edmond Halley
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
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. Joseph Smith, Jr.
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. Isaac Newton
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. Friedrich Nietzsche
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. Ambrose Bierce
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. Edgar Allan Poe
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. Audre Lorde
How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love. James Beattie
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. Saint Basil
Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked. Peter Guber
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. Jessica Valenti
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. Pierre Bayle
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth. Kara Walker
I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing. Tamsin Greig
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. Logan Pearsall Smith
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. Michael Ignatieff
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. Margaret Thatcher
I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone. Kendrick Lamar
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Carl Bernstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. Albert Einstein
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source. Debbie Ford
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. Kurt Vonnegut
The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always a partial truth. Alex Tizon
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories. Brigham Young
There are no facts, only interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche
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. W. Clement Stone
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. Allan Bloom
Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. Roger Bacon
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. Denis Diderot
Photography is usually viewed as a solitary activity, but the truth of the matter is that people love to shoot together, compare notes, and just have fun with photography. Scott Kelby
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world. J. R. R. Tolkien
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. Josefina Vazquez Mota
There is little more powerful than when truth joins action. Bryant H. McGill
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. Shakuntala Devi
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. Albert Einstein
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Winston Churchill
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. Sylvester Stallone
The simple truth is that every veteran has his or her own unique story, and there's no single narrative about the issue of veterans finding civilian employment. And no single solution. Cathy Engelbert
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. Friedrich Nietzsche
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.' Adam Sandler
I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature. Jesse Ventura
Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds. Steven Weber
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Mike Krzyzewski
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it. Whitney Houston
Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded. Nathan Myhrvold
Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen. Hunter S. Thompson
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. Edith Sitwell
You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good. Kanye West
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake
We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it's really this Malala one that's catching people's attention. Carrie Nugent
We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. Michelle Obama
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch
The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty. Paul Johnson
Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk. Ruben Santiago-Hudson
The fact that what we believe about marriage - that it should be between a man and a woman - and that we're pro-life, somehow that becomes radical? Why is that? It's because our culture has changed. But the truth is, culture may change, people change, but the Word of God never changes, and that's what we rest our belief system on. Robert Jeffress
My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth. Oriana Fallaci
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. Henry David Thoreau
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Mahatma Gandhi
You may think having a cluttered desk isn't that big of a deal. But that couldn't be further from the truth. Disorganization can stunt your professional growth and decrease your productivity. John Rampton
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. Thomas Jefferson
Truth exists; only lies are invented. Georges Braque
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them. Pope Francis
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. Mary Astell
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. James Russell Lowell
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. Thomas Mann
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. Pearl S. Buck
Uh, do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them. The means that he used to do that, I can't say, but I do believe in that fundamental truth. Mike Pence
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework? Henry Louis Gates
To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that. Bill Maher
The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it. Dan Pink
For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth. Emmanuelle Beart
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy. Barry White
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. Shinichi Suzuki
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. Max Born
We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is. Travis Kalanick
And 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. Friedrich Nietzsche
I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent. Angela Merkel
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. Ellen DeGeneres
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. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory. Charles Spurgeon
Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted and surrendered seeker knows that belief is dynamic power, and he has this power as his very own. Sri Chinmoy
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. W. Clement Stone
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. Marcus Tullius Cicero
We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day. Ann Richards
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. Eminem
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman
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