Truth Quotes

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics – one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

For great is truth, and shall prevail.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

Truth is, I love everyone that is a good person regardless of what they look like, walk like, or who they love.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

To tell the truth, I’d join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn’t join a band with Paul McCartney, but it’s nothing personal. It’s just from a musical point of view.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

Brethren, let us mind our own business – that is, the calling the Lord has called us to – to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, ‘What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?’

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

There’s something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.