Top 100 Truth Is Quotes
#2. It's often said that "the Irish built America. The truth is, not only did they build it, they also manufactured, repaired, and cleaned it, especially in the decades before and after the potato famine.
Rashers Tierney
#3. The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
Orlando Bloom
#4. The knowledge of truth is the only true knowledge worth knowing.
Daniel Marques
#5. Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force, or artistry, one needs to 'create' a form of expression, and this form determines its own "genuine information".
Philip Schultz
#6. Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction.
Mikhail Bakhtin
#7. You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
Anne Lamott
#8. I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
John Woolman
#9. Truth is fruit on a tree; though ripe, one must still reach for it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#10. Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.
Cyprian
#11. The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.
DeVon Franklin
#12. Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control.
Bryant McGill
#13. I've been lucky to find people who want to work with me, whom I respect and like, but the truth is there aren't that many good projects out there. And we make way, way too many movies. So it's not always going to happen with every project. But I try and wait it out.
Kirsten Dunst
#14. Lies are needed for survival, but truth is the courage.
Yatendra Singh
#15. Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
Benjamin Whichcote
#16. Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.
Greg Iles
#17. The truth is that there comes a time
When we can mourn no more over music
That is so much motionless sound
Wallace Stevens
#18. The truth is, the brain can be reprogrammed. You just have to be deliberate about it.2
Charles Duhigg
#19. The eternal and essential truth is that until we love a thing in all its ugliness we cannot make it beautiful.
G.K. Chesterton
#20. There's no point in denying the truth when the truth is self-evident.
M.R. Carey
#21. Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
#22. The truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin and always, always worn make-up.
Judy Parfitt
#23. The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough.
Mitch Albom
#24. The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.
Gordon W. Allport
#25. I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.
Lucy Walker
#26. The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.
Robyn Davidson
#27. Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
Lord Acton
#28. It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
Andre Gide
#29. Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.
Isak Dinesen
#30. Truth is patient. It can afford to be for eventually it will have its way.
Richard Paul Evans
#31. The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.
Anne Rice
#32. There's a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny's lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I've always been a fool.
John August
#33. But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.
Raymond E. Feist
#34. Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
Iris Murdoch
#35. The truth is that heroes bleed and fear the same as anyone else.
Derek Miller
#36. Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.
RuPaul
#38. The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Augustine Of Hippo
#39. I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.
James Ellroy
#40. The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.
Dennis Cardoza
#41. Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.
Paul Weyrich
#43. God doesn't make things difficult for us. Do you want to know what the truth is? Look in the Bible, and you'll see that Jesus describes Himself not only as the truth, but the way and the life as well.
Monica Johnson
#44. The truth is a fragile thing, but a lie, well told, can live forever. " - Mark Twain
Rebecca Nugent
#45. People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
Octavia E. Butler
#46. The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor.
Erin Duffy
#47. The truth didn't dawn on me. The truth is an early riser and when I finally blinked awake, it was glaring.
Esther Schor
#48. It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.
Mischa Barton
#49. Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror,
Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer.
The truth is that you ugly ...
Not on the outside, but in the inside;
On the outside, you frontin' you lovely.
Pharoahe Monch
#50. Truth is the mirror that reflects our errors and brings them to the light
Michael Strong
#51. People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.
David Petraeus
#52. So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.
George McGovern
#53. The truth is, far too many people in our culture do not know what love is. And this not knowing feels like a terrible secret, a lack that we have to cover up.
Bell Hooks
#54. I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.
David Duchovny
#55. Gradually this truth is beginning to dawn on the political class, so that even socialists have come to accept that the poor are not helped by taking revenge against the rich, but by opening the doors to social advancement. Since
Roger Scruton
#56. The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.
Idina Menzel
#57. The truth is people think that change in life is supposed to make you happy but in reality; change is scary".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#58. Truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths
Haruki Murakami
#59. The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.
Karen White
#60. We like to think that we're independent thinkers, that we're unique individuals. The truth is, however, that the need to fit in and belong is wired into our brains and our biology.
Susan M. Weinschenk
#61. I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.
Simone Elkeles
#62. But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
Cesare Pavese
#63. They try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life, and then I got this role and now I'm awesome. But the truth is that I've been awesome, and then I got this role.
Gabourey Sidibe
#64. I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't.
Jack Bauer
#65. We try and map boundaries, and to string fence - we try to set up a border between life and death, between man and nature, and complicity versus innocence. But the truth is, there is no complicity, there is no innocence; and there is no death, there is only life.
Rick Bass
#66. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Kahlil Gibran
#68. Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you
Dermot Healy
#69. Shahidullah Shahid said there is nothing Islamic in Pakistan's constitution. He clearly can't read. The truth is there is nothing Islamic in the TTP.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
#70. The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#72. Truth is beautiful, no matter what the truth is. Even if it's scary or bad. It is beauty simply because it's true. And truth is bright. Truth makes you more you.
Ava Dellaira
#73. We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.
Josh McDowell
#74. The truth is humble, only those intelligent enough are able to seek and understand it.
Auliq Ice
#76. Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.
Arthur Lynch
#78. And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#79. God is bad, truth is a cheat, and life is a joke.
Jack London
#82. One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)
Kathryn Lasky
#83. Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being ... ultimate reality is what we call God.
R.S. Thomas
#84. I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take my own life, because when the darkness is over, then what a blessing is the feeblest ray of light!
Valerie Martin
#85. Lord, Your grace is amazing and Your truth is perfection. Thank You for taking my imperfection and giving me Your
Kristi Burchfiel
#86. Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#87. The truth is, it's hard to get people to like you, but it's even harder to keep people liking you.
Mindy Kaling
#88. The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.
Stephen Graham Jones
#89. I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.
Andre Derain
#90. The toddler started making this whine/moan noise while pawing at Tabitha. I know as a woman I'm supposed to have this innate love of babies, but the truth is, they kind of remind me of zombies. They stumble around, arms out, moaning. And if they get a hold of you, they suck the energy out of you.
Cindi Madsen
#91. We often say things like, "Jesus died so I didn't have to, " but it's actually much worse. The truth is, Jesus died and so did I. But the worse morphs into better when we remember that Jesus didn't stay dead. And neither do we. Let the dying moments remind us where to find the living.
Emily P. Freeman
#92. To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing
and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good
but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.
William Pepperell Montague
#93. To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.
William Winwood Reade
#94. In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#95. Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Plato
#96. Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.
Hakuin Ekaku
#97. The truth is: there is on this frequency, from our human perspective, a planet, some beings, some resources; would it not be sensible to employ systems that benefit the planet, the beings, and the resources?
Russell Brand
#98. The truth is the object of our lust
But the light is still so very dim ...
Andrea Barbosa
#99. The truth is that health-care reform will always be a nuisance, with version 2.0 followed by next year's 2.1. As long as it boosts productivity, it's worth it.
Jim Cooper
#100. Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.
Henri Frederic Amiel
