Truth Quotes

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth".

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.