Truth Quotes

"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect."

"I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth."

"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."

"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."

"I don't mind what people say about me as long as it's an opinion or the truth. If someone says, 'He's the worst comedian in the world,' that's fine. If someone says, 'His face makes me want to punch the TV,' that's fine. But if they say, 'Oh, and I know for a fact he hunts squirrels,' I go: no, no, no... that's a lie."

"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder."

"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense."

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."

"The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it."

"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne."

"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."

"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."

"For me, I will tell you, when I moved to Nashville, I was 19 years old, I thought I was ready. I thought I was ready to sell out some shows and get a publishing deal, get a record deal. But the truth is, I had not lived enough life at that time to tell the stories that I needed to tell."

"When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!"

"Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it."

"I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it."

"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."

"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it."

"The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent."

"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."

"Truth is in things, and not in words."

"For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first."

"You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth."

"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."

"The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to."

"The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain."

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."

"When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie."

"All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque."

"The words of truth are always paradoxical."

"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"

"To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example."

"Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality."

"A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."

"To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source."

"A lot of truth is said in jest."

"Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth."

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything."

"I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, and I was nominated for an Academy Award. My head got inflated. My friends were the real ones who said, 'You're acting different.' But the truth is that I don't need that, because I don't get out of hand."

"Justice is truth in action."

"Learn what is true in order to do what is right."

"Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion."

"Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is."

"Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed."

"I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom."

"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it."