Truth Quotes

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.