Truth Quotes

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

I still want to write Clint Eastwood a letter saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all us wimp actors. You're the truth.' I guarantee he's not the person you want to fight, even now! You look at him, and you don't want to mess with him. He would still take you down.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments.