Truth Quotes

Great is truth, and all powerful.
– Vulgate
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
– H. G. Wells
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
– Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
– Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
– Anne Lamott
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
– Anne Lamott
You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.
– Scott Bakula
You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
– Kenny Loggins
You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.
– Marco Rubio
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
– Wendell Phillips
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
– Franz Schubert
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
– Jane Goodall
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
– Coco Chanel
Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.
– Veronica Franco
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
– Shunryu Suzuki
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
– William Butler Yeats
When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.
– Andrea Riseborough
When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.
– Roland Joffe
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
– Grace Slick
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
– Muhammad Iqbal
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
– Richard Morris
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
– Frederick Sanger
When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.
– Melanie Laurent
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
– John Cusack
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
– Vaclav Havel
Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.
– Dennis Prager
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
– Albert Brooks
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
– John Keats
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
– Tracey Emin
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
– Shinichi Suzuki
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
– Lady Gaga
What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
– Clifford D. Simak
Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.
– Johnny Isakson
Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.
– Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
– Wole Soyinka
Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.
– Mel Gibson
Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.
– Allen West
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
– Carl Jung
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
– Rem Koolhaas
We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
– Michelle Obama
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
– Wendell Berry
We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
– Candice S. Miller
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
– Charles Stanley
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
– Richard Le Gallienne
We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
– Anne Roiphe
We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!
– Kathy Freston
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
– Pablo Picasso
Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
– Oliver Tambo
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
– John le Carre
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
– Marquis de Sade
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
– Tom Hanks
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
– Plato
Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.
– Chrisette Michele
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
– Ice Cube
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
– Sojourner Truth
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.
– Peter Mullan
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
– Thomas Jefferson
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
– Khalil Gibran
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
– Albert Schweitzer
Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.
– Richard Russo
Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
– Hal Sparks
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
– Voltaire
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
– Arnold Bennett
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
– Charles Darwin
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
– Peter Tosh
To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
– Tony Snow
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
– Laura Riding
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
– Thomas Huxley
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Time discovers truth.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.
– Leslie Jamison
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.
– Ethel Waters
This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
– Clayton Christensen
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
– Ethan A. Hitchcock
These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.
– Ricky Martin
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
– Maureen O'Hara
There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
– Ed Koch
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
– Louis Farrakhan
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
– Chanakya
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
– Thomas Jefferson
There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.
– Paul Twitchell
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
– Ida Tarbell
There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
– Kenneth Starr
There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
– June Jordan
There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
– Jesse Ventura
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
– Andre Malraux
The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.
– Kurt Sutter
The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.
– Rabindranath Tagore
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
– Sarah Bernhardt
The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
– Chris Christie
The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.
– Geri Halliwell
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.
– Julie Burchill
The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.
– Jimmy Kimmel
The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.
– James Buchan
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
– Michelle Obama
The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
– Marilyn Monroe
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.
– Phil McGraw