The Truth Quotes

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.

The secret of high finance...if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money.

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

A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth

Dementia was like a truth serum.

Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

There must be repressed truth even in lies.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.

I can’t control who follows me, but I can control who I follow.[Social Media]

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.