Top 100 But Truth Quotes
#1. Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Barbara Kingsolver
#2. There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as they should have been, you are letting truth into history. You are the word of God.
Philip Pullman
#3. Lies are needed for survival, but truth is the courage.
Yatendra Singh
#4. Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#5. Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly
but truth survives the flight.
William C. Bryant
#6. Understanding the complexities of life may seem very deep, but truth actually resides right on the surface.
Maximus Freeman
#7. When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#8. I say I write to you, but, truth be told, I prefer the American idiom: I write you. I'll write you friends say, as if, in writing, someone could be caused to appear, as if writing were a spell, some form of conjuration. So, I write you to bring you here, bring you back.
Julian Wolfreys
#9. One can lie, but truth is more interesting.
Enid Bagnold
#10. You don't find Truth, but Truth finds you.
Luis Marques
#11. Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
Aristotle.
#12. What myth carries is not fact, not history, but truth - the ultimate reality. The Jesus story carries this ultimate reality, and that's why, two thousand years later, it remains so compelling.
Adyashanti
#14. Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies.
Suzy Kassem
#16. If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!
Washington Allston
#17. Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.
Eudora Welty
#18. Our world is going through very difficult times right now but #TRUTH is ... We can all do something to help brighten it!
Timothy Pina
#19. But truth is not the only merit that a metaphysic can possess. It may have beauty, and this is certainly to be found in Plotinus; there are passages that remind one of the later cantos of Dante's Para- diso, and of almost nothing else in literature. Now
Bertrand Russell
#20. Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.
Samuel Johnson
#21. It is much easier to recognise error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to every one.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#22. The truth matters. But truth is an unfaithful woman.
Rocio Ceron
#23. I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
Michel De Montaigne
#25. I hated being twelve. Back in '65, I just wanted to grow up fast so everything would finally be good, you know? But truth is, life was actually way better back then. Turns out, the older you get ... the more everything just turns to shit.
Brian K. Vaughan
#26. They say what doesn't kill u makes u stronger.. but truth is sometimes it does kill u, it kills a part of u then it makes u stronger.
Tilicia Haridat
#27. Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
William James
#29. When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
Charles Churchill
#30. But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As
Aldous Huxley
#31. Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.
David Novak
#32. Opinion is a flitting thing
But Truth outlasts the Sun.
Emily Dickinson
#33. But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal.
Charles Fort
#34. Steve said, "I don't know. I really don't. All I know is that my life is better when I assume that people are doing their best. It keeps me out of judgment and lets me focus on what is, and not what should or could be." His answer felt like truth to me. Not an easy truth, but truth.
Brene Brown
#35. The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#37. But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.
Mercy Otis Warren
#38. I wish I felt self-conscious about my hair, but truth be told, I look hella cute with psycho hair.
Tarryn Fisher
#40. Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.
Laurence Overmire
#41. Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Anne Lamott
#42. It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect
truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.
John Ruskin
#43. Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.
Max Heindel
#44. When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
Aldous Huxley
#45. Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.
Robert Burton
#46. But truth is stubborn.
Our nature, our secret hearts can only hide for so long.
Susan Henderson
#47. She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.
Barry Lyga
#48. Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
William Hazlitt
#49. I talked a lot of shit, but truth be told, it was more for my ears than anyone else's. Madoc was designer. I was Target. He was Godiva. I was Snickers. And as far as he was concerned, he was entitled, and I was the freeloading daughter of the gold- digging whore who had snagged his father.
Penelope Douglas
#50. The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
Franz Kafka
#51. raise the affections of my hearers as high as I possibly can, provided they are affected with nothing but truth, and with affections that are not disagreeable to the nature of what they are affected with."1
Bob Kauflin
#52. Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.
Ernest Partridge
#53. I cannot make speeches, Emma ... If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.
Jane Austen
#54. Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
Werner Herzog
#55. I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality
It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.
F. Sionil Jose
#56. Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures by boycotting and silencing the independent economists. But truth persists and works, even if nobody is left to utter it.
Ludwig Von Mises
#58. Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised.
Syed Arshad
#59. It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.
Mother Angelica
#60. The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.
Michael Horton
#61. My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.
Laura Riding
#62. The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
Martin Luther
#63. I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.
Stanley Hauerwas
#64. Sacrifice is the
ultimate truth,
he said. But truth itself
must be sacrificed . . .
Brian Nowlin
#65. He knew he lived in hell. He accepted it. He rarely complained. But truth be told, he desperately wished he could make his escape. His prayers went unanswered, and his plans for reform were almost always thwarted by something or other.
Sylvain Reynard
#66. Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
Martin Luther
#69. We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships.
Shawn Anthony Levy
#70. All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.
John Masefield
#72. It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.
Richard B. Garnett
#73. That's a lesson we could stand to learn. Imperials are just like us. Some of them, at least. It's easy to label those who serve the Galactic Empire as pure evil, all enemy, but truth is, a lot of those who do so were either sold a bill of lies, or forced to by threat of pain or death.
Chuck Wendig
#75. There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
Ellis Peters
#76. An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
Marya Mannes
#77. Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
Hunter S. Thompson
#78. The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream, where all are welcome and all prosper, made no longer of lies but truth, built not of rich men's hate but our love for our island and for each other.
Richard Flanagan
#79. Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.
Matthew Henry
#80. After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
Helene Deutsch
#81. From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard
#82. It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.
Lev Shestov
#84. Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel.
Eudora Welty
#85. He wished I wasn't alive. But truth is, I kind of did too. Until I looked at Lily. Until I talked to her. I don't think I could have survived this life without that girl.
Krista Ritchie
#86. If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#87. There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
George Sarton
#88. But truth is like the coyote. No matter how much society is bent on its destruction, it somehow always manages to survive, usually sneaking around the edges of civilization to avoid detection.
Kirk Mustard
#91. But truth, that dangerous commodity, has a way of sticking ...
Margery Sharp
#92. Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
Swami Vivekananda
#93. That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Rumi
#95. I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.
Peter O'Toole
#96. The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.
Octave Feuillet
#98. I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.
Lisa O'Hare
#99. Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
Emily Dickinson
#100. But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way.
Herman Melville
