Truth Quotes

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

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

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.