Truth Quotes

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

The color of truth is gray.

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.