Truth Quotes

Truth is the best defense.

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Error is always more busy than truth.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.