Truth Quotes

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

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

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.