Truth Quotes

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.