Top 100 Truth Is That Quotes
#1. The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
George McGovern
#2. Separately.) The truth is that conservatives do have the cool message.
Greg Gutfeld
#3. The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity.
Bill Cosby
#4. It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#5. A sad truth is that we don't know what we really believe! We don't know how we operate. We don't know what is holding us back. We don't know why we do what we do.
Maddy Malhotra
#6. For the truth is ... that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. They hunt in packs. Their packs scour the desert and vanish screaming into the wilderness. They desert the fallen.
Virginia Woolf
#7. They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow ( Schlaukopf ) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.
Otto Von Bismarck
#8. The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.
Julien Smith
#9. The truth is that people never realize their lives are about to change in unforeseen ways
that's just the nature of unforeseen ways.
Will Schwalbe
#10. The truth is that not story or life lived goes on without the experiences changing you. For better or worse, life does that. The events that take place make you who you are. Sometimes they take more than you have to give.
Joann Buchanan
#11. Campuses are bubbles, artificial environments that insulate students from the life of the competitive marketplace. The more exact truth is that our campuses offer students the privileges of liberty without the corresponding responsibilities.
Peter Augustine Lawler
#12. The truth is that this was something over which I had no control and the question is not why but what. What am I going to do with this? What am I going to make of it?
Vicki Forman
#13. But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal.
Charles Fort
#14. The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.
Lawren Harris
#15. The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.
Joseph Alsop
#16. The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!
Erik Weihenmayer
#17. People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge.
J. Robert Lennon
#18. Somewhere at the back of my head I heard a click, tiny and irrevocable. Memory magnifies it to a wrenching, echoing crack, but the truth is that it was the very smallness that made it so terrible.
Tana French
#19. The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.
Maajid Nawaz
#20. We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.
John C. Maxwell
#21. The truth is that from about 2 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was home, at one and the same time, to several human species. And why not?
Yuval Noah Harari
#22. The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
Remy De Gourmont
#23. The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#24. The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody ... It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
Ludwig Von Mises
#25. Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.
Ahad Ha'am
#26. The troubling truth is that rewards and punishments are not opposites at all; they are two sides of the same coin. And it is a coin that does not buy very much.
Alfie Kohn
#27. The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.
David Boaz
#28. You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he *must *do ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#29. When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.
Roland Joffe
#30. All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we are all members of the council of all beings ... And the ultimate objective truth is that all beings are perfect manifestations of Spirit or Emptiness
Ken Wilber
#31. The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.
Fran Lebowitz
#32. The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.
Kevin McCarthy
#33. The truth is that there's no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn't more? LENORE:
David Foster Wallace
#34. The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.
John Conyers
#35. The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
Eric Fischl
#36. The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
Wayne Dyer
#37. The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.
Mario Cuomo
#38. The truth is that she spoke about her misfortune without any shame in order to cover up the other misfortune, the real one, that was burning in her insides.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#39. The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.
Sonia Sotomayor
#40. The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.
Elmore Leonard
#41. LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage.
David Foster Wallace
#42. Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
Walter Darby Bannard
#43. To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great, obscure mass of humanity, and forget all about its ancestors.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#44. The heart has its own laws ... and the truth is ... the truth is that you are the law of mine.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#45. The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.
Benjamin Cohen
#46. Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.
Nora Ephron
#47. The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt
#48. The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.
Juan Williams
#49. The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.
Randeep Hooda
#50. What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
Noam Chomsky
#51. The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president
William Howard Taft
#52. The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
Terry Eagleton
#53. Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.
Israelmore Ayivor
#54. I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
Bill Hybels
#55. The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.
Mike Norton
#56. The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick
Bernie Siegel
#57. Torture is senseless violence, born in fear ... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#58. The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
Marie Brennan
#59. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion.
Gregory David Roberts
#60. Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.
Rose Macaulay
#61. For the sorry truth is that in this most pragmatic land, the purist is generally his own worst enemy.
Harry Stein
#62. But the truth is that nothing distracted me from waiting.
The.Time.Simply.Passed.
Meg Rosoff
#63. We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.
Timothy Noah
#64. Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.
John Wanamaker
#65. The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
Robert Greene
#66. Many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human lives. They are Iying. The truth is that animal experiments kill people, and animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of men, women and children every year.
Vernon Coleman
#67. We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that the scale and magnitude of the problem is larger than their ability to respond - and it terrifies them.
Hugh Hendry
#68. The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.
William Cobbett
#69. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
Jeanette Winterson
#71. I'm never really upset when a person lies because I don't place much value in truths. When you look at the grand design, you realize that there are no truths, only stories. In other words, the only truth is that we are all stories. Lies are just part of the story that we tell.
Lionel Suggs
#72. The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.
John C. Maxwell
#73. The not so simple Truth is that we must be psychologically free in order to resist and we must resist in order to be free, and all of this requires an understanding of what bondage has been, of what it continues to be and of its ramifications for the future.
Mari Evans
#74. The truth is that we live in a world that diminishes possibilities.
Lionel Suggs
#75. The world is changing. Social media is a way to sell movies and to build a fan base. The truth is that you have followers because they know you are into it and you're funny and you like it. I think it's great.
Eli Roth
#76. The beauty and gift of truth, is that it is not dependent upon your belief in order to remain true
A. Dragonblood
#77. The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Bill Cosby
#78. We believe that if we are bad, he is just waiting to unleash his wrath on us. The truth is that he has already unleashed his wrath on his Son for all of our badness.
Jessica Thompson
#79. The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
Dave Barry
#80. The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.
Osho
#81. What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
Albert Brooks
#83. When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
Richard Morris
#84. I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party.
Douglas Alexander
#85. The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
Evelyn Waugh
#86. The truth is that from the age of 14, I felt about 40, and for that reason, I felt that I would never succeed as an actor until my looks caught up with my actual age.
Rory Kinnear
#87. The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.
Hillary Clinton
#88. I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
Ferran Adria
#89. Our tendency today is to assume that we can eliminate the authority of husband over wife and yet retain the authority of husband-wife over the children. The Bible is more realistic about marriage than modern man, for the truth is that in disobeying the one hierarchy we destroy the other.
Charles F. Stanley
#90. The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.
George Verwer
#91. Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others.
Beth Revis
#92. The truth is that I don't work any harder than anyone else in the world. I don't work 18-hour days. I don't stay up until 4 in the morning trying to finish a line.
Adam Schlesinger
#93. But the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no
I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.
David Levithan
#94. The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
John R.W. Stott
#95. The problem with the truth is that is pisses a lot of people off who are trying to hide it.
Shane Moore
#96. And the truth is that by homeschooling, you're doing something that a large part of society isn't doing. Being different is a ministry.
Jamerrill Stewart
#97. I know that everyone wants to know about 'Downton Abbey,' but the truth is that it was only a few days out of my life. Still, you play a distinctive part on a hit series, and everyone suddenly knows who you are. Isn't it crazy how this business works?
Theo James
#98. The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#99. The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.
James Rothman
#100. The shocking truth is that until recently most people didn't think there was anything particularly wrong with genocide, as long as it didn't happen to them.
Steven Pinker
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