Top 100 Be The Truth Quotes
#1. Lucas kicked back in his chair, and thought, Let's go to Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that.
John Sandford
#2. I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
Christopher Hampton
#3. There are worse things that can happen to an enemy of the state than Gitmo. Hate to say it, hate it to be the truth, but there it is.
Jonathan Maberry
#4. If you eliminate all other possibilities, whatever remains must be the truth." Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
#5. Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#6. One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.
Arthur Koestler
#7. The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Samuel Butler
#8. Not everyone can see the truth, but everyone can be the truth.
Franz Kafka
#9. I only did it,' I said, 'now this is going to be the truth, Teddy, I only did it because it seemed to be the glamorous thing to do at the time. It was my ideal of glamour.
Elaine Dundy
#10. If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
A.R. Rahman
#11. Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
Plato
#12. It is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.
Terry Pratchett
#14. Close all the books
Open the Heart's book
Read out loud and clear
And then you shall BE the TRUTH
And you shall be a mighty kindness.
Gabriel Iqbal
#15. I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
Ralph Ellison
#16. What is needed now is for leaders to become more open, more flexible, less egoistic and less hypocritical. We must loosen our death grip on whatever we believe to be the truth simply because it is how we want the truth to look. We must be honest with ourselves and invite honesty from others.
Susan Scott
#17. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
Whatever the Party holds
to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except
by looking through the eyes of the Party.
George Orwell
#18. We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.
Christy Turlington
#19. Strictly speaking, nothing that's said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can't ever say it.)
Susan Sontag
#20. Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.
Sigmund Freud
#21. starts upon the supposition that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It
Arthur Conan Doyle
#22. If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#23. It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.
Virginia Woolf
#24. You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.
Maya Angelou
#25. May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.
Charles Lamb
#26. Dreams were dreams; only one facet of what might be the truth of the world
Elyne Mitchell
#27. All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
Diane Setterfield
#28. I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
Abbey Lincoln
#29. Writing has been sewn into my soul and I'm afraid my thoughts have no choice but to be the truth to the story and my hand the connection between the pen and paper. With every word written, my heart finds its beat and inspiration fuels the desire to fulfill this need.
Amber M. Royse
#30. - 'My lord, if a man cannot express his honestly held views in the Central Criminal Court, perhaps you can advise me where else he is free to state that which he believes to be the truth?
Jeffrey Archer
#31. Wanting something to be the truth does not make it true and believing that something is reality does not make it real.
Jim Vuksic
#32. Whoever you are. Where ever you are. With whom so ever you are & were. Whatever may be your past. What so ever may be the truth. I will wait for you & I will fade away just like a daffodil when storm comes.
Srinivas Shenoy
#33. And once I'm pretending that's the truth, I figure it might as well be the truth.
Rachel Cohn
#34. If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth.
Napoleon Hill
#35. I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.
Fedor Bondarchuk
#36. If Jesus undertook to bring me to glory, and if the Father promised that He would give me to the Son to be a part of the infinite reward of the travail of His soul; then, my soul, till God Himself shall be unfaithful, till Jesus shall cease to be the truth, thou art safe.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#37. The truth will always be the truth, no matter how it's told.
Khali Raymond
#38. But that's not a very original idea, is it? It's really just a platitude ... sort of like a Florida sunset, Nevertheless, it happens to be the truth, and the truth deserves to be spoken ... if you can say it in a new way, I tried to put it in a picture.
Stephen King
#39. The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#40. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#41. If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.
Eckhart Tolle
#42. When all around take fundamental ideas for granted, these must be the truth. For most minds there is no comfort like it.
Jacques Barzun
#43. I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.
Jimmy Swaggart
#44. The Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party. That is the fact that you have got to relearn, Winston. It
George Orwell
#45. It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, unless the truth is a hypothesis it didn't occur to you to consider.
Jordan Ellenberg
#46. 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.
John Verdon
#47. We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.
John Sherman Cooper
#48. But it is a myth to assume that the larger amount of early stimulation you provide, the more beneficial it will be. The truth is that babies can be overstimulated
which is what many parents, intent on beginning to groom their progeny for college in the cradle, end up doing.
Julius Segal
#49. Eliminate the impossible, and what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" - Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
#50. You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.
Mickey Rooney
#51. While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#52. He was a dork, a dink, a dong ... Why should the male member be used as a term of abuse? No man hated his own dorkdinkdong, quite the opposite. But maybe it was an affront that any other man had one. That must be the truth.
Margaret Atwood
#53. What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the truth and never is the truth.
Thomas Bernhard
#54. What one is afraid to think must be the truth.
Marty Rubin
#55. In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters
James Frey
#56. There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.
David Hume
#57. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.
Cate Blanchett
#58. I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!
Tennessee Williams
#59. Excuses are just detours to the truth. The truth will always be the truth.
Ann Marie Frohoff
#60. One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth.
Isaiah Berlin
#61. The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself. SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD
Kate Atkinson
#62. I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
Mara Brock Akil
#63. Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#64. My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.
Thom Yorke
#65. See the truth. Feel the truth. Be the truth.
A.D. Posey
#66. I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
#67. A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.
Karen Joy Fowler
#68. Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.
Ruth Ozeki
#69. The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.
Albert Einstein
#70. When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#71. Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
Louis Farrakhan
#72. Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden.
Iyanla Vanzant
#73. Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
Gautama Buddha
#74. Thoughts, by their nature, come and go endlessly in you. But you are not the thought; you are the one seeing the thought, so any thought of who you are cannot be the truth of who you are.
Enza Vita
#75. What you're afraid to think must be the truth.
Marty Rubin
#76. I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.
Jonathan Maberry
#77. In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
Richard Feynman
#78. What you believe to be the truth directly determines your attitude towards yourself and the world, the words you say and the actions you take.
Mark Victor Hansen
#79. Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.
Oprah Winfrey
#80. There are things ye maybe canna tell me, he had said. I willna ask ye, or force ye. But when ye do tell me something, let it be the truth. There is nothing between us now but respect, and respect has room for secrets, I think - but not for lies.
Diana Gabaldon
#81. It is an act of gracious generosity to accept a person based on what we know to be the truth about them, regardless of whether or not they are in touch with that truth themselves.
Marianne Williamson
#82. Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
Christina Stead
#83. It's wonderful how much you can learn by just being quiet and listening. Sometimes you even learn the truth - or what seems to be the truth.
Avi
#84. Platitudes might satisfy for a short time, father - but soon or late, the people will realize they are being fed form without substance. What I tell them must be the truth, and I must believe it, and I must hold to it.
Mercedes Lackey
#85. I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.
Jonathan Swift
#86. Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
Miguel De Cervantes
#87. Religions are strange. They seem to be caught in some dream which they won't give up and trying to convince others of the truth of their dream, when in fact each person is having their own dream. Take what you need from the religions and just leave the rest, and be all right with that.
Art Hochberg
#88. The man who recognizes the truth of any human relation and neglects the duty involved is not a true man.... A man may be aware of the highest truths of many things, and yet not be a true man, inasmuch as the essentials of manhood are not his aim: he has not come into the flower of his own being.
George MacDonald
#89. He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.
J.C. Ryle
#90. Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
William Godwin
#91. Once I had feared that telling the truth would be like falling, that love would be like hitting the ground, but here I was, my feet firmly planted, standing on my own.
Rachel Hartman
#92. Eventually someone will find out the truth. It could be you.
Criag Whitman
#93. Don't be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.
Dianna Hardy
#94. If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.
J. Reuben Clark
#95. No matter what you think you can be, when you're forced to stop and look at where you actually are, it's pretty depressing.
Sometimes, there is no escaping the truth
Candace Bushnell
#97. You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.
Imre Kertesz
#98. We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.
J.J. Abrams
#99. I thought it was important to speak about what I believe would be the right response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. I'm pleased to hear there is more sanctions maybe coming tomorrow. But the truth of the matter is I think we need less talk and more deeds.
Mike Pence
#100. The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.
Marc Marcel
