Truth Quotes

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.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

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 truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

The truth will only be told over a career.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.

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