The Truth Quotes

Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.

The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

In a world where celebrity equals talent, and where make-believe is called reality, it is most important to have real love, truth and stability in your life.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.

Faith is generated in the atmosphere of experiencing truth.

The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.

Consummate talent and relentless passion - The Truth ain't pretty...but it rocks like crazy!

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

Make a destination of the greater truth.

Do the truth quietly without display.

Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

Feminism doesn't need re-branding. It names a problem and it is an uncomfortable truth for many

Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present

I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."

Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.

It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.