Truth Quotes

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

When in doubt tell the truth.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

Justice is the truth in action.

The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.