Truth Quotes

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

Johann Georg Hamann

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

Jennifer Dunn

Which one is the truth, sir?Which period do you mean, son?

Toba Beta

You're right. Your decietfulness far exceeds my modest attempts at dishonesty. I bow-down to your superior duplicity.

Aleatha Romig

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

Jeanne DuPrau

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Arthur Schopenhauer

So now they're shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to hear. Not the truth, but some lie that will protect them from the truth

Ralph Ellision

How you approach birth is intimately connected with how you approach life

William Sears

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places?Look for delusion and truth in thebottom of your own heart.

Ryokan

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Edward Young

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions.

Baron d'Holbach

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

Kij Johnson

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain; Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law.

Joseph Story

Her maktul katilinde ya?amaya devam eder.

Elif Shafak

Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.

Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

Josh Lanyon

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

Swami Vivekananda

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

Trey Parker

The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success...

Dean Acheson

Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.

Philip Pullman