Truth Quotes

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it.

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

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.