Truth Quotes

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.

Mark Haskell Smith

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

Leslie Marmon Silko

I look into his eyes and jump off of a high dive plunging deep into the pools of green staring back at me. No matter how hard I fought it, no matter how unreasonable or out of control it feels and no matter how much I try to reason it away the truth in this moment is that Jonathan Hayes owns me heart and soul.

Kathryn Vance-Perez

If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.

John Cowper Powys

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

Kelly Gallagher

Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

Steve Wynn

When I met you everything seemed right But the truth is you fucked on the first night It sank in slow; now I know you're a ho Yo, I shoulda listened when my friends told me so

Eamon

In the cherry blossom's shadethere's no such thingas a stranger.

Kobayashi Issa

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

Milan Kundera

There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer.

Toba Beta

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

Khalil Gibran

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

Norah Vincent

Geraldine: We must tell the truth! Prentice: That's a thoroughly defeatist attitude.

Joe Orton

I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it

Bible

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

Ricky Williams

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.

Laura Riding

Truth is too big a price to pay for the luxury of avoiding pain now and then.

Vanna Bonta

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

Patrick Rothfuss

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

Richard Francis Burton