Truth Quotes

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Truth comes out in wine.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

When affection only speaks, truth is not always there.

Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.