Truth Quotes

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Exactitude is not truth.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies in the failed policies of the past, the same ones that put banks before people, Wall Street before Main Street, plunging us into recession and devastating the middle class.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.