Truth Quotes

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.