Truth Quotes

If words are the truth, what is living for?

Marty Rubin

The man who saw his fellow US citizens burned alive, torn apart by a mob, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah, and responded by writing Screw Them, is now claiming to be the messenger of truth to the citizens of the US.

Charles Foster Johnson

I never talk back. I listen and always remember your every word, so come pen or mouse, never forget that I will treasure your thoughts forever. Yours truly, Paper.

L.M. Fields

I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

Frank O'Connor

Do you want this to be a love story?

Jenny Downham

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Anne Sexton

His courage foes, his friends his truth proclaim.

John Dryden

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Diogenes Laërtius

We need absolute honesty in public life; and we shall not get it until we remember that truth-telling must go hand in hand with it, and that it is quite as important not to tell an untruth about a decent man as it is to tell the truth about one who is not decent.

Theodore Roosevelt

Now, these men weren't idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.

Alfred Bester

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

Diane Setterfield

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

Laurie Halse Anderson

What we say is the truth is what everybody accepts.... I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith.

Madeleine Stowe

The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

Wallace Stevens

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Simone de Beauvoir

I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.

Iyanla Vanzant