Truth Quotes

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.

Usually we are saying only part of the truth.

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.