Top 100 Quotes About The Truth
#1. The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?
Lev Grossman
#2. The truth was, Dorian had always been more interested in being known as good than in simply being good
Brent Weeks
#3. Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.
Sheri S. Tepper
#6. The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Lao-Tzu
#7. They question me everyday. There's always bright lights and they give me medicine that's supposed to make me tell the truth, but it doesn't work on me. Or maybe it only works when I start talking, but I never do.
Embee
#8. That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.
Joseph O'Connor
#9. You're a liar!"
He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But this happens to be one of the rare times when I'm telling the truth. Go home. Consider yourself lucky. You've got a chance to start fresh. Not everyone can say the same.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#10. Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally.
Robi Ludwig
#11. You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.
Chuck Palahniuk
#12. Who came up with the idea that telling the truth is easy? That's already a lie.
Dmitry Glukhovsky
#13. I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.
Robert Atkins
#14. If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.
R.C. Sproul
#16. The truth is, we each of us have an inborn conviction that the whole world with everybody and everything in it, was created as a sort of necessary appendage to ourselves.
Jerome K. Jerome
#17. The old and simple truth that it is natural for men to help and to love one another, but not to torture and to kill one another, became ever clearer, so that fewer and fewer people were able to believe the sophistries by which the distortion of the truth had been made so plausible.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#19. A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Frederic Farrar
#20. With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth.
Lennox Morrison
#22. Maybe the crazy people are the only ones who know the truth.
Alex Flinn
#23. A friend is someone that asks, 'how are you,' and really wants to hear the truth.
Tonny K. Brown
#24. I made a promise to Michael Brown's parents that I would do everything to bring all of the resources of the federal government to this investigation so that it is transparent; so that it is a viable investigation, and we get to the truth.
William Lacy Clay Jr.
#25. In this world, there are only 'things that seem like the truth' and 'things that seem like rumors - A-ya
Suzumu
#26. Fear is the reason I can't let this go, either. It's the reason Rachel needs to believe that whatever happened is Stacey's fault. It's why she insists that we're all very different from Stacey. Because the truth is that if it could happen to Stacey, it could happen to any of us. By
Aaron Hartzler
#27. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Agatha Christie
#28. They said, "You are a savage and dangerous woman."
I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.
Nawal El Saadawi
#29. I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
Denis Diderot
#30. When we live with a lack of anxiety about the future, even in those tightrope kind of times, we communicate the truth that our God is indeed worthy of our trust.
Matt Chandler
#31. You don't have to lie if you know how to withhold the truth.
Ruskin Bond
#32. I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
William Faulkner
#33. And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.
Leo Tolstoy
#34. The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.
Martin Filler
#35. The truth is that in this country you here you're more likely to be harassed, hurt, or killed if you're a minister speaking about progress for Black people than if you are a sure enough revolutionary.
Gil Scott-Heron
#36. Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing,
I Just Might Tell You the Truth
Bob Dylan
#37. Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.
Orson Scott Card
#39. And what do you do when you can't use anger to fall back on? You admit the truth.
Stephen King
#40. I knew Bob Dylan was searching for the truth and had been for years. And anyone who Really wants the truth ends up at Jesus
Johnny Cash
#41. We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?
James Vila Blake
#42. The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.
Robert Hooke
#43. The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated.
George Carlin
#45. I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.
Cornel West
#46. Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
Adyashanti
#47. Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#48. (I lied, in 1939, with far greater conviction that I told the truth- so I was positive that M. Yoshoto looked at me with suspicion when I said I wasn't feeling well.
J.D. Salinger
#49. Accept only the truth and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love.
Nirmala Srivastava
#50. The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.
Emanuel Cleaver
#51. It's so easy to lie. What's even worse is how we cling to those lies. We beg for the illusion so we don't have to face the truth, don't have to feel alone.
Karen Marie Moning
#52. Only when we stand in the truth and fight with it, can God Himself come and begin to confirm His Word.
Sunday Adelaja
#53. ...the assertion that you live in a lie while I live in the truth is the most cruel thing one person can say to another...
Leo Tolstoy
#54. I fled, or at least, backed awkwardly away from journalism because I wanted the freedom to make things up. I did not want to be nailed to the truth; or to be more accurate, I wanted to be able to tell the truth without ever needing to worry about the facts. And
Neil Gaiman
#56. Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Jane Austen
#57. Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry Truman
#60. We have art in order not to die from the truth. - NIETZSCHE
Donna Tartt
#61. The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.
Ice-T
#62. Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself
Steve Kluger
#63. He wrote: 'We make ourselves real by telling the truth
Geoffrey Durham
#64. I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
Paul Cezanne
#65. The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
Arthur C. Brooks
#66. The truth is, life grows and evolved inside of you and, it has nothing to do with any other person except you. The truth of life grows and evolves, in the form of understanding.
Roshan Sharma
#67. When confidence is deemed arrogance..
Happiness and joy deemed showing off self..
Strong words deemed mere big talk and rhetoric..
Small minds..only time will prove and show the truth..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#68. The two of them are like open books, they speak the truth at the risk of their own lives, and when they keep silent their thoughts blaze like a beacon from their eyes.
Juliet Marillier
#69. The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
Pope John Paul II
#70. Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be ... a goal of reporters today.
John Ensign
#71. The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.
Mira Grant
#72. Happiness is your True Nature.
Within you is Unimaginable Beauty.
Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment.
Through the clear Realization of the Truth,
your Real Self will come shining through.
Robert Adams
#73. I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.
Randy Shilts
#74. God has a church upon the earth, who are His chosen people, who keep His commandments. He is leading, not stray offshoots, not one here and one there, but a people. The truth is a sanctifying power, but the church militant is not yet the church triumphant ...
Ellen G. White
#75. All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
Plato
#77. Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought.
Maria Shriver
#78. But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.
Nenia Campbell
#79. I can see why you're fond of Jackaby."
"Hah! He's as rare a breed as they come-that's the truth!"
Jackaby rolled his eyes.
William Ritter
#81. The soul is imbued with a yearning that is carried, like a torch, from incarnation to incarnation. It burns with a curiosity about life and it's true identity. Souls live, strive, and evolve, driven to seeking the truth about the world and themselves.
Stefan Emunds
#82. The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us
when they do.
Janette Oke
#83. It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
Alan Cohen
#84. Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!
Swami Vivekananda
#85. Often the truth remains hidden in the shadows, and it is in the shadows where the light and dark make war...and love.
Stjepan Sejic
#87. He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
Periander
#88. Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.
Margaret McMullan
#89. in your dream, you are jealous of tragedies.
and the truth is, we all want our own tragedy,
because life is pale without it.
we want the teeth, the screaming.
the survival
that comes with it.
Salma Deera
#90. Bones smiled. Oh, grand. Going to make me beat the truth out of you? My favorite way to work.
Jeaniene Frost
#91. Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with a record of delivering for them, of vision, and a level of maturity and responsibility.
Christine Quinn
#92. The truth was, if I was perfect, it was only because of her. It would only ever be because of her.
J. Lynn
#93. Among pernicious myths is the one where people always get very upbeat and generous and other-directed right before they eliminate their own map for keeps. The truth is that the hours before a suicide are usually an interval of enormous conceit and self-involvement.
David Foster Wallace
#94. When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.
Christopher Moore
#95. An invaluable little book ... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism ... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists.
Daniel Finkelstein
#96. This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness.
Brent Weeks
#97. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
George Orwell
#98. The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#99. I know you better than you think, Leonidis, and under no circumstances are you allowed to try to fix this. I think you may be right. I think it may be time to tell them the truth, but in my own time, okay?" God licked Day's parted lips. "Okay," Day whispered. "Also" -
A.E. Via
#100. Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.
Paul Hoffman
