Truth Quotes

My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that so...

...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be...

People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and ...

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it ...

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's ...

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and s...

Anyway, in those years, I was happy, as to one extent or another I have always been happy. The fores...

...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world al...

Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, ...

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

I'd always had an ear for beauty, and maybe I'd had an eye for it as well, but until that day, I'd n...

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent...

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogm...

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you ha...

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind...

Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.

[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.

Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to ...

One that society can't forgive, but I can.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say '...

This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brou...

I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sl...

I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sl...

The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons ...

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'...

Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and stranger...

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they...

But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tel...

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Fragments are the only forms I trust.

I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. ...

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past wh...

Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the rig...

We are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to s...

Long ago I decided that at a political meeting the truth usually comes out in just such a speech or ...

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of m...

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly less stupid than we are to accept truths tha...

You and I, Ella, we are the failures. We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more s...

The real reason why so many artists now take to politics, ‘commitment’ and so on is that they are ru...

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

I became a feminist activist propelled in part by outrage and despair, and a stubborn determination ...

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the t...

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we ...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental ...

If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks th...

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself....

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the...

You should be spreading the good word. You should be etching the good word onto the glass scanning b...

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it...

Christ is our Way; we walk in Him. He is our Truth; we embrace Him. He is our Life; we live in Him. ...

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Who can tell truth from falsehood any more?I say it, and you feel it in your hearts:no man or woman ...

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find ...

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither t...

The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except th...

We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransack...

The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is not...

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as tr...

The past has no power over the present moment.

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility aris...

Be a true Heart, not a follower.

I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portio...

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, porti...

The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any e...

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story ...

I carry my adornments on my soul.I do not dress up like a popinjay;But inwardly, I keep my daintines...

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, und...

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for...

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughte...

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughte...

No two person, ever read the same book.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not bec...

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And ...

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom ...

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.George: No, but we must carry on as...

It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in...

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newsp...

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law ...

True enemies aren't always the ones who hate each other.