Truth Quotes

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

I always come from truth.

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.