Truth Quotes

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

Arthur Schopenhauer

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

Cornel West

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

Criss Jami

The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.

Marcus Aurelius

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

Tyler Perry

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

Sara Shepard

When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey

Arab Proverb

There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.

Kirk Cameron

As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.

Origen

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.

Italo Calvino

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Robin Hobb

Love of the streets is the love out of which I see deeply I love God, how near I come to the truth.

William Saroyan

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

Robert Capa

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering

Minna Antrim

I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.

Lee Scott

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

Anton Szandor LaVey

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Marcus Aurelius

You're stubborn- anyone ever tell you that before?

Carrie Ryan

A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby.

Toba Beta

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.

Lily Tomlin