Truth Quotes

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

When in doubt tell the truth.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

Justice is the truth in action.

The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.