Truth Quotes

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

Truth is what works.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Truth is always a delusion.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.