Is It The Truth Quotes

#1. A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.

Martine Franck

#2. The truth is," I say, "he's having my baby. It's a medical miracle. Someone call the newspapers.

Laura Ruby

#3. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

Robert W. Service

#5. To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!

George Sand

#6. The truth is, Ari, I miss El Paso. When we first moved there, I hated it. But now I think about El Paso all the time. And I think of you. Always, Dante P.S.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#7. There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

Christopher Morley

#8. Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

T. S. Eliot

#9. Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

Malcolm X

#10. Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.

Junot Diaz

#11. Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.

Jorge Luis Borges

#12. The truth of the matter is that the Quran was not revealed in the complete form in which it exists today. It was revealed from time to time, according to the circumstances, over a time span of 23 years.

Anonymous

#13. It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry.

Damon Horowitz

#14. The truth is for those that seek it!

Gayle Nix Jackson

#15. Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

Joseph Joubert

#16. It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

Francois Rabelais

#17. It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest ...

Jan Morris

#18. The truth to succeeding at leadership is recognizing that it's a never-ending journey of discovery and learning.

Tanveer Naseer

#19. No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain.

Malcolm X

#20. Yes or no?"
"It's always yes with you."
"Except when it's no."
"If you have to keep asking because - I'll answer it as many times as you ask. But this is always going to be yes."
"Don't 'always' me."
"Don't ask for the truth if you're just going to dilute it.

Nora Sakavic

#21. Education is not an expense, but it is the capital ready to be invested.
The return depends on the wisdom you gained.

Debasish Mridha

#22. To tell the truth, it is regarding the physical side of marriage that I have always been apprehensive...There so seldom seems to be enough of it," said Miss Teatime.

Colin Watson

#23. Love is the treasure of life, so spend it as much as you can. As you spend, the universe will be richer and friendlier. It will pay you back a thousand times more.

Debasish Mridha

#24. It is a scholar's task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it's no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a preexisting truth? Or have you imposed an arbitrary meaning on whatever it is you're considering?

Mary Doria Russell

#25. Goodness is more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love.

Colum McCann

#26. The truth is only dangerous if it can inflict injury.

Morgan Rhodes

#27. This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

Joseph Campbell

#28. It is the truth that liberates, not your efforts to be free.

Joseph Goldstein

#29. Keep your faith in all things hidden. We believe in the stars when we cannot see them. We believe in the sun when it no longer shines for us. And we believe in the universal truth even when it is not shown clearly.

Hilary Thompson

#30. I know there are rumours concerning my 'breakup' with Brody Jenner. The truth is, we were never really together. We hung out, and he's a nice guy, but my heart was never in it. Anything further is just a cry for publicity.

Nicole Richie

#31. Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

George R R Martin

#32. It's hard to tell the truth sometimes, especially if you don't want to hurt someone. And you did. You said what you feel. And you must do what is right for you, not what other people say is right.

Louise Rennison

#33. Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

Swami Vivekananda

#34. Take my advice, dear reader, don't talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.

Joseph P. Farrell

#35. Once you let the truth loose it is like setting a fire that you can't stop.

Bryant McGill

#36. Knowledge is the value of a diamond but wisdom is the beauty and light it reflects.

Debasish Mridha

#37. The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

Che Guevara

#38. Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

J.M. Coetzee

#39. It is not ... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

William Osler

#40. The truth is: while it may have been rough getting here, I've awakened to a dream. The most incredible man in the world came into my life and gave it back to me.

Tessa Dawn

#41. Awaken your mind from the deep sleep of ancient mysticism and make it self-conscious - power will come, glory will come, goodness will come and everything that is excellent will come.

Abhijit Naskar

#42. Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

William Kingdon Clifford

#43. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.

Abhijit Naskar

#44. Yeah, I think that's it ... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.

John Milius

#45. I kind of wanted to tell them that. Like, it's okay, I know I'm weird-looking, take a look, I don't bite. Hey, the truth is, if a Wookiee started going to the school all of a sudden, I'd be curious, I'd probably stare a bit!

R.J. Palacio

#46. The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

Sara Rue

#47. Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

#48. It is like the truth is locked solidly inside her. She is a prison of secrets.

Joe Hart

#49. Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".

Mitch Albom

#50. When it comes to immigration, the journalist's motto is: The public can't be trusted with the truth.

Ann Coulter

#51. The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.

Clint Black

#52. It is light that cheers us when we are downhearted, it is light that brings us solace out of suffering, it is light that beams upon us when we discover some new hidden truth of the universe - it is light that first greets us when we emerge into this world.

Eric P. Kelly

#53. Coal, in truth, stands not beside but entirely above all other commodities. It is the material energy of the country - the universal aid - the factor in everything we do." - William Stanley Jevons, economist, 1865

Naomi Klein

#54. Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

Christopher Paolini

#55. When it touches your soul, truth is like fire," he began. "As you know, when we rest too close to the fire we quickly become uncomfortable. Too close and it even becomes painful. But that doesn't always mean we should try to elude its flames.

Serena Chase

#56. I think in life there is only one absolute truth.
Death ... It's the only definitive horizon, sometime it leaps, runs across mountains and vanishes beyond oceans but the closer you get, the more you see and you know it is the final destination, the absolute truth. We are only living to die.

Crystal Evans

#57. Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#58. The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

Thomas Aquinas

#59. The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.

David James Duncan

#60. It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

E. M. Forster

#61. At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

Charles Spurgeon

#62. The truth is, however, that when two individuals detest each other, while being unable to get along without each other, it is not of all human relations the truest and most moving, but rather the most pitiable.

Simone De Beauvoir

#63. The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.

Parmenides

#64. Every moment of our life is filled with joy, happiness, and peace; we can see it when we pay the attention.

Debasish Mridha

#65. When there is an issue, I approach it and hit it head on. I speak the truth. If I do something wrong, then I own it.

Teresa Giudice

#66. Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

Walter Raleigh

#67. The reality is that if religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth,

Ravi Zacharias

#68. So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

Bill Sienkiewicz

#69. And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks of circumstance. Only he who questions the universe and questions it in utter honesty can grow in his comprehension of the truth.

James Dillet Freeman

#70. Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world ...

Sathya Sai Baba

#71. The one most valuable lesson humanity ought to have learned from philosophy is that it is impossible to make sense of truth without acknowledging God as the necessary starting point.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#72. An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

Jon Niccum

#73. To cherish others is to cherish ourselves. To cherish ourselves is to cherish others. And in that same way, we relate to the truth. If we support it, if we embrace it, if we uphold it, we will be embraced by it, we will be supported and upheld by it.

Sharon Salzberg

#74. Hope is the whisper of our soul. It is always with you. So never give up. Persist with love.

Debasish Mridha

#75. Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.

Alvaro De Campos

#76. Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth not only because it is true but also because it shocks the naive

Eric Hobsbawm

#77. It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

Madeleine L'Engle

#78. The gospel is life giving, because it generates changes that are received only by grace through faith. This foundational truth, however, gets bypassed, obscured, and forgotten, because, as Martin Luther noted, religion forms the default mode of the human heart.

J.D. Greear

#79. It is often idle to attempt to oppose ignorance and absurdity by such feeble instruments as truth and reason, and the wisest managers of mankind have generally been most successful when their plan has been to counteract one folly by means of the influence of another.

Jacob Abbot

#80. He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

John Tillotson

#81. The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

Yehuda Berg

#82. The real conflict over cosmology is not between religion and science-- it's between religion and materialism, between those who think that religious truth is both real and knowable and those who think that science explains everything.

Scott Klusendorf

#83. The final truth is not what we always expect it to be, nor even what we wish it to be. It is our courage, our will that brings us to this truth

Mark James

#84. If anyone hurts you, love him; it is the greatest revenge.

Debasish Mridha

#85. For it is just as sinful from the standpoint of nature and of truth to be above oneself as to be below oneself.

Haruki Murakami

#86. An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#87. So what is the truth?" Mr Umezaki had once asked him. "How do you arrive at it? How do you unravel the meaning of something that doesn't want to be known?

Mitch Cullin

#88. To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Aristotle.

#89. The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

Garry Kasparov

#90. The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

Maya Angelou

#91. It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.

Auberon Herbert

#92. The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News of redemption. The truth is revealed in God's Holy Word; life can be lived only in absolute and disciplined submission to its authority.

Charles Colson

#93. Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.

Abhijit Naskar

#94. The last word smelled of desperation,and the old lawyer sighed. 'I can tell you that the law is an ocean of darkness and truth, and that lawyers are but vessels on the surface. We may pull one rope or another, but it is the client, in the end, who charts the course.

John Hart

#95. In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

John Edgar Wideman

#96. Central Truth: Prayer is successful only when it is based on the promises in God's Word!

Kenneth E. Hagin

#97. It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Sophocles

#98. The training of children is such a serous thing, and it means so much to them to be surrounded from the very beginning with good influences, that I should have thought the holier a man's vocation and the purer his life, the more fit he is to be a father

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#99. It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure ... you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it.

Bob Proctor

#100. The truth about forever is that it never gets any closer or farther away.

Maximus Freeman