Truth Quotes

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

Light is the symbol of truth.

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.