What Is Truth Quotes

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.

Unless you're living in your truth, you're slowly killing yourself.

I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

God gave humans the truth, and the devil came and he said, 'Let's give it a name and call it religion.'

We're all born with infinite potential and creativity. We all have it in us. Each and every one of us. That's the only truth

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to be found in the minds of the reasonable and rational.

You have to feel your own personal truth with a little ‘t’ – your sadness, rage, frustration for example -- in order to get to the Truth with a big ‘T’.

The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.

There can be no healing without truth.

I think we need to grow in our self-assurance that is not scared of being challenged, that the truth we uphold can stand up to the closest possible scrutiny.

I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them.

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.

What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.

The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

The truth is lots of films are made, the majority of which are terrible.

Love and the search for truth are unifying principles.

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

Capital T truth is dead.

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

The truth is, I’d give it all up to be a rock star.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

When all else fails, tell the truth.

I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.