Truth Quotes

"When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold."

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

"The truth does not need to be defended."

"Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense."

"Facts are stubborn things."

"Humility is truth."

"Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true."

"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."

"Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth."

"Any truth is better than indefinite doubt."

"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."

"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."

"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."

"I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it."

"I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender."

"Light is the symbol of truth."

"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."

"I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist."

"An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician."

"Truth is exact correspondence with reality."

"Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving."

"When you meet with someone and you try to assess whether they're telling you the truth or not, there's several things you can do. You judge demeanor and credibility. You look at corroboration."

"The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies."

"We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II."

"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."

"Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so."

"The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it."

"One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions."

"People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth."

"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."

"I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes."

"Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state - something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption."

"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."

"In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."

"The single-hearted unity is the lifeblood of Juche Korea and the dynamic force for a leap forward, and we must invariably follow the road of self-reliance and self-development - this is the invaluable truth of the Juche revolution confirmed by our army's and people's gigantic struggle in 2016."

"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."

"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job."

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."

"I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world."

"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."

"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."

"The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood."

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world."

"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."