Truth Quotes

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

Mercedes McCambridge

Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.

Eric Chaisson

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

Deb Caletti

To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

William Pickens

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

Anne Sullivan Macy

We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth and to assimilate it from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself; it never cheapens or debases him who reaches for it but ennobles and honors him.

Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

Conor Oberst

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story

Max Ehrman

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it

Confucius

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

Chris says it's all in the doing, but to tell you the truth, there's a lot to be said for the having.

Jeff Melvoin

You speak truth, said Themistocles; I should never have been famous if I had been of Seriphus; 4 nor you, had you been of Athens.

Plutarch

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

David Blaine

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

Christopher Moore

... the situation was still too delicate for complete candor and the ultimate truth too unformed for statement.

Dean Acheson

For the truth is that our doctrines are usually only the justification a posteriori of our conduct, or else they are our way of trying to explain that conduct to ourselves.

Miguel de Unamuno

The Germans really conceive of their country as always under war conditions in this respect. No one expects a belligerent to tell the truth and, to the German mind, they are always belligerent. The Germans take the view that war is only intensified peace.

Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil

Truth is a big concept.

Lukas Foss

Many lies lie between one truth.

Toba Beta

Deriving truth from joy may be far more easier than generating joy from the truth.

Toba Beta