Truth Quotes

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

"A lot of truth is said in jest."

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

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

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."

"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."

"That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity."

"I'm interested in two things. I'm interested in truth and I'm interested in fairness."

"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails."

"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may."

"Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."

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

"There's no truth anymore."

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."

"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

"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."

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

"I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned."

"Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected."

"Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality."

"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."

"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."

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

"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."

"The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!"

"Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness."

"Being a pastor means you're a truth teller. That means you're truth teller when it comes to the Bible. That means you protect your people from deception that comes from the world. That's part of being a shepherd."

"Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow."

"Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law."

"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie."

"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."

"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade."

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."

"Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does."

"There is no truth. There is only perception."

"Silence is the mother of truth."

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

"Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive."

"The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people."

"I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say that. The truth is that the Constitution is not one that morphs. It's an enduring Constitution, not a changing Constitution. That is what I've meant when I've said that the Constitution is dead."

"Facts are many, but the truth is one."

"The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on."

"God's true church has always been a place where people hunger for the truth from the Bible."

"Exactitude is not truth."

"Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen."

"A gift of truth is the gift of love."