The Truth Quotes

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

We should be cultivating our female workers. The truth of the matter is that women just see problems and solutions differently, and that's valuable.

So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.

People don't want truth, they just want trash.

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

I hate the truth so much that i'd rather have a giant dose of bulls**t anyday

Argument is not always truth.

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.

Truth sounds paradoxical!

There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

No matter how much you tell yourself your over someone, your heart knows the truth

But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be.

Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.

A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a broken butterfly wing.

Endless is the search of truth.

When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

Of course the president Donald Trump said he wants to get to the truth. He always says that. But I think we all know that those words do not speak as loudly as his actions.

Picasso.” He whispers like a priest. “Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

A society is doomed when opinions are respected more than truth.

Not sure there is a truth that's "for sure."

La vérité est sur une courbe dont notre ésprit suit éternellement l'asymptote. Truth is on a curve whose asymptote our spirit follows eternally.

The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

I think it's extremely important that the president Donald Trump himself indicate that he too wants to discover the full truth behind what the Russians did to elections 2016.