Top 100 Truth About Quotes
#1. He knows how love blinds people to the truth about the one they are in love with.
Jonathan Franzen
#2. Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life.
Denis Waitley
#4. Sometimes gossip is by far the most reliable source of information about yourself and all your friends, especially in Manhattan. I always say why trust myself when gossip can tell moi the real truth about moi?
Plum Sykes
#5. An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.
M. Scott Peck
#6. The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality.
David Whyte
#7. Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.
Tom Hulce
#8. Freud's warning that what I omit without thinking (i.e. without conscious thought) may be the key to the deepest truth about me?
J.M. Coetzee
#9. If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
Martha Beck
#10. Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
Paul Auster
#11. You asked me just now for the truth
well, the truth about any girl is that once she's talk about she's done for; and the more she explains her case the worse it looks.
Edith Wharton
#12. ...no one who has ever lived through the unmasking of one ideology, taken uncritically as the truth about human life, will be quite as vulnerable to the absolutizing of another.
-Sexuality and Spiritual Growth
Joan H. Timmerman
#13. Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.
Midge Decter
#14. There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.
Bill Gates
#15. I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.
Kerry Bishe
#16. If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
Larry David
#17. Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
Camille Paglia
#18. ... it is strange to know you would be cast off by the people who greet you so warmly, if they knew the whole truth about you.
Zen Cho
#19. Are you seriously telling me the truth about all this?" I asked.
"I seriously am," he replied. "I was also serious about stealing a fry.
Lindsay Ribar
#20. The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler
#21. Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.
Jose Ramos-Horta
#22. I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict ... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.
Nora Ephron
#23. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it.
Veronica Roth
#24. I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.
Mark Twain
#25. I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It's the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report.
Rush Limbaugh
#26. We demand that sex speak the truth [ ... ] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.
Michel Foucault
#27. It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
Zadie Smith
#28. Does that help? Probably not, unless you are sane enough to believe that the truth about anyone is disappointing, the truth about me especially so.
Nick Hornby
#29. Faith does not reveal the truth about God; faith just keeps you in the dark.
C.J. Anderson
#30. You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.
Norma McCorvey
#31. Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.
Michelle Hodkin
#32. Because that's the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don't start when you're ready or stop when you're tired.
Christopher McDougall
#34. The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#35. We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration.
Pope Benedict XVI
#36. One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers.
Werner Herzog
#37. How can a person who has awakened to the truth about his body ever die? Such a one attains to immortality.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL.
Peter Landesman
#39. It can be seen as a discussion of the nature of evidence - the way in which there is no single truth about anyone's life, but as many truths as there are observers.
Carol Shields
#40. Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#41. Finally told her son the gruesome truth about his life. I could have told them about the feeling of not knowing your roots, and about the angst you suffer when you discover you will be forever denied access to it. It's a feeling we know better than anyone else.
Erik Valeur
#42. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H.L. Mencken
#43. Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
Andrew Vachss
#44. Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.
Richard Dawkins
#45. The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies.
Santosh Kalwar
#46. I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.
Sarah Kane
#47. Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.
Bernard Sahlins
#49. Do you know why it is that, even today, women are counseled to scream "fire" instead of "rape"? Because the fundamental truth about humanity is that most people would rather look away.
Michelle Hodkin
#50. You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called 'swift-boating'.
Howie Carr
#51. Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.
Andrew Luck
#52. The entire truth about everything can be known through your vibratory awareness. And this vibratory awareness comes to you through your attention, which is enlightened by your Spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
#53. I was the only one who knew the whole truth about Lucas
who he really was, and what we felt for each other. The truth was all I had left of him, and I would have to carry it alone.
Claudia Gray
#54. Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.
Bennie Thompson
#55. Here is the biggest truth about the Universal Order: There is no order!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. When someone tells you the truth about something, they become loveable.
Brad Brown
#57. The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.
David Hewson
#58. The truth about stories is, that's all we are.
Thomas King
#59. You cannot know the truth about the world until you know God loves you, because that is the truth about the world.
Andrew Klavan
#60. It wasn't until I stood in my truth and told everybody that I had $250,000 in credit card debt. At that point, everything turned around for me. I had to reveal the truth about what I didn't have, more than pretend about what I did. That was interesting.
Suze Orman
#61. Because we live in a democracy, and the people can't govern themselves well if they don't know the truth about the world we live in. What if our rich citizens never hear of the poverty and suffering of the rest of the city? Why should they ever give to charity or vote for reform?
Rosslyn Elliott
#62. People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.
Mardy Grothe
#63. The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
Newt Gingrich
#64. Then again, if I told her the truth about everything, that wouldn't be a problem. She'd want nothing to do with me.
Tijan
#65. Rebellion is not going to go away ... What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped ... The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps this narrative alive ... We speak a fundamental truth about this system that terrifies them.
Chris Hedges
#66. He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships
Henry Cloud
#67. That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going out and doing them. As ugly a truth as that is, I do think it's the truth about the world.
Woody Allen
#68. I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne!
Veronica Roth
#69. Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.
Ken Loach
#70. We share good news, then, neither to show our neighbors why Christianity is "right" nor to save people from the corrupting influence of other religions, but to name the story that helps us tell the truth about ourselves.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
#71. Artists are the only people in a society who will tell that society the truth about itself.
James Baldwin
#72. I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
Bob Kane
#73. I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.
Romola Garai
#74. The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
Gavid Hood
#75. Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.
Martin Jackson
#76. And I say, 'We are pilgrims too.'
And we say, 'But this time we won't lie. We will tell the truth about our explorations.
Kate Scelsa
#77. The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.
Orson Welles
#78. We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. Our failure to confront the historical truth about how African Americans finally won their freedom presents a major obstacle to genuine racial reconciliation.
Timothy B. Tyson
#79. If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection.
Paul Auster
#81. I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.
Johnny Carson
#82. This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A President who's not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.
Lewis Black
#83. The truth about forever is that it is happening right now
Sarah Dessen
#84. A story always tells the truth about the true intention of the storyteller, regardless of the plot." - Peter Arpesella
Peter Arpesella
#85. When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."
Leo Tolstoy
#86. I will go to the UN General Assembly and, in a clear voice, tell the nations of the world the truth about Iran's terrorist regime, which constitutes the greatest threat to world peace.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#87. If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?
Moms Mabley
#88. The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
D.B.C. Pierre
#89. Western culture is hell-bent on ignoring, disbelieving, and, in some cases, actively twisting the truth about what we should be eating - so much so that it can be hard for us to believe that we've been lied to all these years.
T. Colin Campbell
#90. The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.
Leslie Marmon Silko
#91. The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.
James H. Cone
#92. Each truth about God known by the mind is a new motive for loving Him with the will.
Peter Kreeft
#93. I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#94. The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing ... it never stops.
Marisha Pessl
#95. The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless--just working our way toward home.
Denver Moore
#96. Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.
August Sander
#97. The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.
Alan Redpath
#98. That's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block out the things we can't.
Holly Smale
#99. These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.
Tom Hodgkinson
#100. When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
Deepak Chopra
