Truth Quotes

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.