The Truth Quotes

Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

Truth is tarter than taradiddles; and nothing is tarter, terser, than truth on the track of tired trash in a trance.

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

To meditate on Scripture is to allow the truth of God's Word to move from head to heart. It is to so dwell upon a truth that it becomes part of our being.

Truth is always paradoxical.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

Now now, Emily, it isn't nice to tell the truth.

It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.

God is Truth, Truth is God.

Truth is a point of view about things.

The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.

The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

Truth is error burned up.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.