Truth Quotes

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

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

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

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

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.