What Is Truth Quotes

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

People are basically irritating. Myself included.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

I only feel like myself when I am alone.

But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

Do you want this to be a love story?

Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.

Purity of heart is what enables us to see.

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.