Truth Quotes

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

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.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth.

There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

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.

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.