Top 100 Truth Behind Sayings
#1. The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must free ourselves from our tendency to see cities as their buildings, and remember that the real city is made of flesh, not concrete.
Edward Glaeser
#2. I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.
T.C. Boyle
#3. The journey of a human is not only to expand its illusory personality of his mind, in the external world, but to realize himself beyond the identity of the mind and see the truth behind the formation of life within.
Roshan Sharma
#4. Years ago, I had a teacher who taught me that all ways lead to the Way," I said slowly, thinking. "That there is a great truth behind all the truths of the world, and the faces of the gods are masks that may be changed at will.
Jacqueline Carey
#5. When we share Christ, the Truth behind our transformation, we are offering people an opportunity to be transformed.
David Jeremiah
#6. Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.
Saahil Prem
#7. The truth behind the truth is this: even if you are a victim, you must never be a victim. Even if you deserve to be one. Because while you wait for somebody to come along and set things right, life has moved forward without you.
Augusten Burroughs
#8. The truth of scientific research, just like the truth behind many equally complex areas of study, is that the people behind them are far more human than we tend to admit.
Anonymous
#9. without truth behind them, words are just a bunch of letters.
Jennifer Murphy
#10. If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself
ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity
before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.
Eugene O'Neill
#11. You can only carry the illusive personality in your mind until you realize the truth behind it, but the time you realize the truth, you just cannot hold the illusive self of yours, in the mind.
Roshan Sharma
#12. While President Obama was starting and expanding unconstitutiona l wars overseas, Bradley Manning, whose actions have caused exactly zero deaths, was shining light on the truth behind these wars.
Ron Paul
#13. Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.
Dimitri A. Bogazianos
#14. A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is
or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.
Isaac Asimov
#16. Clarity of vision is a thing much prized. I find when you turn that clear sight upon yourself - and see through to the truth behind your own actions - it might be better to be blind.
Mark Lawrence
#17. In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.
Alice Sebold
#18. Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.
Loreena McKennitt
#19. There's always a little truth behind every 'just kidding'. A little knowledge behind every 'I don't know'. A little emotion behind every 'I don't care'. And a little pain behind every 'it's okay'.
Anonymous
#20. For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.
Richard Bach
#21. That's what a little victory in psychiatry looks like. You slip into the shadows, dodging the mind's defense mechanisms, glad enough to take a half-step toward the truth. Behind the next word or the next glance may lurk the demon you seek, all in flames, desperate to be held, but set to flee. (8)
Keith Ablow
#22. This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the truth behind the handsome face and the miraculous powers, the truth that was the dead and empty space between the stars, a wasteland peopled by frightened monsters.
Leigh Bardugo
#23. By the way, nothing I ever say, ever, has any truth behind it.
Daniel Tosh
#24. To believe whatever is said without investigating the truth behind them is the ultimate stupidity of all the majority in all the eras!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. I don't realize how badly I've needed to say those words until they've left my mouth. They hang in the air. And all I want now is to be away from them. To leave the truth behind. Because if I can't do anything about it, I certainly don't want to face it.
Lauren DeStefano
#26. You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.
Sathya Sai Baba
#27. There is always some truth behind lies
M.L. Kacy
#28. You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.
Julien Smith
#29. Look a pig in its eyes, and understand the truth behind bacon.
Mango Wodzak
#30. I find awards frivolous. When I began my career, I was told that I deserved an award for a certain performance, but then I couldn't turn up on the day of the show. Then I was told that the award went to someone else. That's when I realised the truth behind it all.
Emraan Hashmi
#31. So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter the light of the truth of our being, and aided by that light to find the right path. Mary
Pope Benedict XVI
#32. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
Jane Wiedlin
#33. Fact, no matter how minutely observed, is truth with a small "t." Big "T" Truth is located behind, beyond, inside, below the surface of things, holding reality together or tearing it apart, and cannot be directly observed.
Robert McKee
#34. The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.
Ellen Hopkins
#35. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya
#36. Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.
Terry McMillan
#37. I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished.
Lionel Suggs
#38. 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
#39. If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
Manny Montana
#40. God uses one whom others would have passed over without a second glance. The history of obedience to the Great Commission is full of such examples. Behind this reality is a truth that God will use any who will submit to and obey His purpose for mission in their generation.
Ross Paterson
#41. Don't you wonder sometimes why so much gets heaped on certain people?" I almost told the truth. That truth being, "I wouldn't dare." I wouldn't dare dwell on a thing like that. I try to look forward in my life. Because what's behind me is a little hard to take.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#42. I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.
Lee Daniels
#43. There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#44. At a time when the joy of living is more painful than imagining the beauty of eternal life, we leave our life behind.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#46. Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them ... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.
Hermann Hesse
#47. Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.
Luther Burbank
#48. Words have power.Their power doesn't merely emanate from the meaning they carry,but also hidden truth they leave behind.In what is left unsaid.
K.J. Kilton
#49. It's easy to delete the truth when you live behind your own permanent censor.
Katie Kacvinsky
#50. The spoken truth of Rudy Steiner
'I guess I'm better at leaving things behind than stealing them.
Markus Zusak
#51. I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.
Anne Sexton
#52. I don't impressed if you're a religious person.
I just wanna know about soul behind that mask.
Toba Beta
#53. Wherever you go, go with love, but never leave hope behind.
Debasish Mridha
#54. 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
#55. Maurice Blanche maintained that amid the tales, the smokescreens, and the deceptive mirrors of life's unsolved mysteries, truth resides, waiting for someone to enter its sanctum, then leave, without quite closing the door behind them. That is when truth may make its escape.
Jacqueline Winspear
#56. There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.
Sohrab Vossoughi
#57. The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.
Luke Scott
#58. We are human precisely insofar as we always intend a singularity across the thickness of our lives, insofar as we are grouped around this unique interior where there is no one, which is latent, veiled, and escapes from us always leaving behind in our hands truth which are like traces of its absence.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#59. I am awake and witness to the beauty that resides behind you're soulful eyes of intent. Become my impaler.
Truth Devour
#60. For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
Noam Chomsky
#61. Flakes. I was exhausted, shattered, in bewilderment. But behind the bewilderment the truth was
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#62. The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.
America Ferrera
#63. I am ready for the most exhilarating time of my life, discovery before me, negativity behind me, through the road to ruin, I will find within me, my most unshakeable truth.
Nikki Rowe
#64. The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind a greater good.
Rachel Bach
#65. She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat.
Jodi Picoult
#66. When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expected it to be.
Nathan Filer
#67. The truth is rarely buried; it is merely lying in wait behind veils of modesty, pain, or indifference; the one necessary prerequisite is a passionate desire to lift the veils.
Amin Maalouf
#68. In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.
Roland Allen
#69. The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.
Brandon Mull
#70. Comes a day when everything you thought you had put behind you sets up its tent in the middle of what you were still hoping you could call tomorrow and yells out, 'Right this way.'
Well, here I come.
Laird Hunt
#71. The secret behind every godly man and woman is their belief in the truth that they have been forgiven ... Even when they say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or have a wrong thought, they continue to be forgiveness-conscious.
Joseph Prince
#72. But that's the thing about truth - even when you think you know it, it can still sneak up behind you and knock you down.
Rachel Bateman
#73. Learn from what's behind you but look forward to what's ahead. It would be a sad, sad existence if you believed your best had already come and gone. Believe instead the truth ... that the best is yet to be because that part's up to you.
Toni Sorenson
#74. It's not objective. It's subjective." Katya hooks her bra behind her back. "It's just what you think, not the truth.
E. Lockhart
#76. Let's live to believe leaving all lies behind
Munia Khan
#77. Truth: sometimes a murderer cannot be found. Truth: sometimes your children are taken and you are left behind. Truth: poverty is a prison. Truth: disease and age come to us all.
Claire North
#78. The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it.
L.M. Fields
#79. The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it's exhausting to get them out in the right order." He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she'd heard one. She raised an eyebrow.
Merrie Haskell
#80. You want to know the horrible truth ?
I cant even remember what she looked like! I only know she was the one thing I ever wanted..and 7 kingdoms couldnt fill the hole she left behind
George R R Martin
#81. They says truth is hidden behind their masks, but I believe Truth comes out when they are masked!
Twinkle Varshney
#82. His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.
Shaun Jeffrey
#83. The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.
Nick Hornby
#84. Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
H.P. Lovecraft
#85. The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them.
Neel Burton
#86. In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.
Siri Hustvedt
#87. Young girls always know. They know older women look at them and see what they've left behind and can't get back. It's a truth everyone knows but no one acknowledges: There's nothing more powerful than an eighteen-year-old girl.
Sarah Addison Allen
#88. Pac-Man? Or is it Donkey Kong?" In truth, it looked a little more violent and military.
A slow grin spread over his face. "Baseball. Think maybe you could stand behind me and give me a few pointers?
Becca Fitzpatrick
#89. It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.
Maggie Stiefvater
#90. Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity.
Ruby Gettinger
#91. What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.
Sarada Devi
#92. Behind every "Truth" there is always a "Lie", Behind every " Lie" there is always a "Reason", and behind every " Reason" there is always a "Person" ...
Shujoy Chowdhury
#93. You're mind lets you see only what you're looking for. The truth always stands behind the scenes.
Nick
#94. But I can't pretend I don't know how little the goodwill of even the best surgeon can accomplish against the workings of fate. A man's hands are rooted firmly in the earth, Angela. God, if he exists, is behind our backs.
Margaret Mazzantini
#96. When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.
Yiyun Li
#97. Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you know it you're in a final act of a lousy movie. A lousy horror-movine, usually ...
Glen Duncan
#98. Cleverness is egocentric, dramatic, gives you an illusion of success. We are always running behind it and ultimately suffer. Whereas simplicity is spiritual, blissful, not dramatic, simple but joyful and gives inner peace. Which is our ultimate goal.
Debasish Mridha
#99. I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
Eamonn Walker
#100. And that most people would never understand the devastating need of those left behind, the need to know the truth.
Darynda Jones
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