Truth Quotes

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

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.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?