Truth Quotes

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Truth is always a delusion.

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

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

Sincerity is moral truth.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.