Truth Quotes

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Justice is truth in action.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.