Top 100 Can Truth Quotes
#1. The ancients say that one note of a song is twenty times more powerful than a single word, and that only in song can truth be clearly perceived, for though words can harbor lies, music cannot abide them.
Nicole Evelina
#2. Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.
Felix Frankfurter
#3. Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
James Hutton
#4. Personal truth differs from one person to the next, so how can truth itself be a constant? At least we can listen to each other in truth.
Jay Woodman
#5. I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.
Anne Lamott
#6. Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Greg Evans
#7. It's easier to construct a more palatable life story-where I can draw straight lines from each hurt of the past to the healing I later experienced-than to face the raw truth.
Lysa TerKeurst
#8. People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
Avigdor Lieberman
#9. A painful truth I'd learn later: you may be ready to grow, but you can't fertilize friends and grow them with you.
Sara Levine
#10. How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#11. Even the truth can be damaging, if it's revealed too soon or too late or to the wrong parties.
Nanci Rathbun
#12. The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
Gustave Le Bon
#14. Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn't; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the blemish will be erased from the permanent record known as your soul.
Ted Michael
#15. Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#16. Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.
Debasish Mridha
#17. If you can't trust others, nobody will be able to trust you.
Debasish Mridha
#19. The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.
Michael Crichton
#20. A look into the Human Mind..of how we perceive..How can we see beauty in and around us..Not the correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous..BUT..pleasure that resides in the Sense of Self !! A Self living in a state of 'nothingness' and beauty as it lies there..from that place! Simple and Deft
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#21. I whispered across the bars to Jackaby as I rose, "Shall I tell them the truth?"
"Have you killed anyone?" he asked, quietly.
"No, of course not!"
"Then I can't imagine why you shouldn't.
William Ritter
#22. I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13)
Yumi Tamura
#24. But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
Aldous Huxley
#25. Once you let the truth loose it is like setting a fire that you can't stop.
Bryant McGill
#26. Don't worry. I know the truth."
"The truth about what?"
Cam stepped back. "You want to say yes, but you're just not ready."
My jaw dropped.
"It's okay." His grin turned cocky. "I'm a lot to handle, but I can assure you, you'll have fun handling me.
J. Lynn
#27. In the West, you don't get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can't do it. Not only can't you tell the truth, you can't think the truth. It's just so deeply embedded, deeply instilled, that without any meaningful coercion it comes out the same way it does in a totalitarian state.
Noam Chomsky
#28. Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being ...
Rajneesh
#29. You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion.
Debasish Mridha
#30. To sought out solace within yourself is the most difficult challenge and is quickly ignored by many, thus can only be achieved when you find truth within oneself
Yolanda De Iuliis
#31. how do you get beyond the self-doubt and indecision? How do you find the truth?" "You can never know for sure, Dors, you just choose and go on. Usually there follows regret instead of reward, so you just choose again. In the end, you fade away.
Jeffery Brown
#32. The truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.
Terry Goodkind
#33. I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.
Kirk Cameron
#34. The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.
Marcel Proust
#36. We can ... treat only the geometrical aspects of mathematics and shall be satisfied in having shown that there is no problem of the truth of geometrical axioms and that no special geometrical visualization exists in mathematics.
Hans Reichenbach
#37. But the truth is, I can't sip from an hour-long church service on Sunday morning or dash off a hasty prayer or gulp down a daily Bible verse and expect them to sustain me any more than I can expect a glass of water to last for a week.
Lynn Austin
#38. Truth is deadly. Truth is freedom. Truth can break and mend and bind.
Sarah J. Maas
#39. Just after the Second World War Picasso bought a house in the South of France and paid for it with one still-life. Picasso has now in fact transcended the need for money. Whatever he wishes to own, he can acquire by drawing it. The truth has become a little like the fable of Midas.
John Berger
#40. I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.
Colin Firth
#41. Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.
James Carville
#42. If you value the world simply for what you can get out of it, be assured that the world will in turn estimate your value to it by what it can get out of you ... If you pursue truth, people will be true to you.
Arthur Twining Hadley
#43. Some truths need to be said out loud before they can be believed
Nadia Hashimi
#44. My mind struck a truth as an elbow can strike a table edge.
Maya Angelou
#45. It is terrible to die of thirst on the sea. Does your truth have to be so salty that it can no longer even - quench thirst?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. I love you, that is important to me. You love me or not its your matter. Remember I can control only myself, not you at all.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.
Trey Gowdy
#48. Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.
Chaim Potok
#49. We keep secrets from people that we love because we're afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we're afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we're afraid of what is, and what can't be.
Lauren London
#50. The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.
Willem Dafoe
#51. A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.
Anurag Shourie
#52. When you're with another actor and doing something very intense, often you pull them over to your side, or they pull you over to theirs. But if you stay in your own truth, you can play that perfect tennis match. I always want to bring my power, but not in a way that eliminates the whole game!
Giancarlo Esposito
#53. Love is the music of the heart, which you can feel but can't hear.
Debasish Mridha
#54. They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
Ethan A. Hitchcock
#55. the more I see of the 'honoured, famed, and great,' the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within."20 Now the truth of this was even more apparent.
Karen Swallow Prior
#56. Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.
Bruce Lee
#57. I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?
Nicolas Cage
#58. There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#59. The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.
David Novak
#60. To have wealth does not mean you love money, you can love money and not even have a cent
Sunday Adelaja
#61. It's been said that only the educated are free, but I contend. Only those who are educated with TRUTH can be inherently free. Otherwise, you are simply indoctrinated with error.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#62. Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not
Anzia Yezierska
#63. Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can't speak for itself, it's not truth.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#64. Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.
John Knox
#65. Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.
Henry B. Eyring
#66. Blind faith in belief-system, ideologies, doctrine or dogma can never set us free. Only the knowledge of truth can liberate us from the slavery of doctrine, dogmas, blind faiths and religious sects.
Banani Ray
#67. Silences seem longer in darkness. I think it's because it's harder to lie when the lights are off. There's a rawness that only belongs to the night and the truth can't help but be set free.
Katie McGarry
#68. There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
William James
#69. Don't you let fear have a place in your life, J. Not even a tiny place. Get rid of it from every hidden corner. Chase it away with the truth, and do what you want to do while you can.
Ryan Winfield
#70. When someone loves you, you can feel it from a far distance.
Debasish Mridha
#71. An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer ... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.
Morris Graves
#72. If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.
Julian Assange
#73. I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
Laura Esquivel
#74. A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.
Tom Baker
#75. A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend. ... Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#77. If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
Carl Bernstein
#79. Science is never rigid, it is flexible. It can bend towards any direction that ultimately tends to do good to humanity. Religion must learn the same. And the moment any religion learns that, it would become the most scientific religion in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
#80. But perception becomes truth if you can get people to see it your way. Truth is a much more fluid concept than you choose to believe it is -Danny
Wendy Wunder
#81. The first experiment already illustrates a truth of the theory, well confirmed by practice, what-ever can happen will happen if we make trials enough.
Augustus De Morgan
#82. People can leave, and then they can come back. It sounds simple, like an obvious thing. But when I realized that, the truth if it seemed important.
Ava Dellaira
#83. The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I'll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that's not accurate. Everything's there so I won't be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.
Etgar Keret
#84. God walks 'round in muddy boots, sometimes rags and that's the truth. You can't always tell but sometimes you just know. " From Geodes
Carrie Newcomer
#85. The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.
Rob Nilsson
#86. Even the most ridiculous of stories can contain a grain of truth.
Lemony Snicket
#87. Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it.
W.B.Yeats
#88. Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.
John K. Brown
#89. It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
Thomas Troward
#90. No words for a long time. Which is fine, because even the most important ones
I love you. I'm sorry. Forgive me? I'm here
are only stand-ins for what you can say better without talking at all.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#91. Most religious persons would say that "truth is God", but they can't explain clearly who is God and hold a perspective of truth that is actually a religious dogma.
Daniel Marques
#92. What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love ... They're the guiding lights of a life.
Jimmy Carter
#93. Things will happen that you can't prevent, things will fall apart that you can't hold together, but ultimately you're shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be.
Erik Tomblin
#94. I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.
Christopher Rice
#95. There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#96. The serenity of truth and the peace of death can be only secured through a largeness of contempt embracing all the profitable servitudes of life. He
Joseph Conrad
#97. Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.
Sheri Reynolds
#98. Religion doesn't start with a set of laws or rules and it doesn't start with a set of ideas. It starts with an encounter, with the living God and in our case, Christ risen from the dead. In that encounter you meet someone you can trust. That's faith: trust in truth.
Francis George
#99. On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.
George A. Sheehan
#100. The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.
Henry David Thoreau
