Truth Quotes

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.