The Truth Quotes

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

The media has a responsibility. And we can't let them totally get away because they have to let the truth be seen and be told.

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

I leave a lot out when I tell the truth

No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

I think it's my job to tell the truth.

Two half truths do not make a truth.

Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.

Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not. Truth is obeyed when it is loved.

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal.

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Just tell the truth and you're home free. If there are amends to be made, you make them. You own it and move on.

I think whatever comes natural is probably the truth, and the truth is the strongest form of anything - whether serious or funny.

Truth is truth no matter what I think.

I was the only one who knew the whole truth about Lucas--who he really was, and what we felt for each other. The truth was all I had left of him, and I would have to carry it alone.

Fear is a place where you just tell the truth

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

By the way, nothing I ever say, ever, has any truth behind it.

Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.