Truth Quotes

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

My body gets weak without truth.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.