The Truth Quotes

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.

You can't handle the truth!

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

Actually, all paths lead away from the truth...how's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth's already here, where are you going?

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

Official truth is not actual truth.

Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

Proclaim the only truth you can be totally sure of: "I don't know."

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

It's about reaching as many souls as I can through techno, speaking God's truth and his gospel to as many ears as I can, taking the message to the street.

The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror

For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.

. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end.

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.