Truth Quotes

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

For great is truth, and shall prevail.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.