Truth Quotes
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For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
Barbara Boxer
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The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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The joy of 'The X-files' is how it plays on so many different realities never knowing what is the truth and what is the deception. So my approach to my character has always been that we are alive and have always been alive and were never 'killed off' but held a fake funeral in 'Jump the Shark' to get the heat off of us.
Dean Haglund
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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
Saint Patrick
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It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.
Jean Piaget
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Desiderius Erasmus
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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
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
W. Somerset Maugham
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…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.
Simone de Beauvoir
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As a freelancer, as a writer, and running my company, people have always tried to negotiate me down. Some might think that I might accept their offers because they think I don't have many options. The truth is, I always have options available to me.
Luvvie Ajayi
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Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together.
Dudley North
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I feel compelled not to pass on a vision of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to tell the truth as I see it, but I also have to believe that individuals - my kids, your kids, whoever - can do something about it, and I want to show the ways in which they can do something about it.
John Edgar Wideman
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Do not, under any circumstances belittle a works of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.
Azar Nafisi
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
Bayard Taylor
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Truth is stranger than fishin.
Jimmy Buffett
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Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth.
Dakota Blue Richards
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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
Friedrich Schiller
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
Eric Idle
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He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
Periander
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Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.
Lao Tzu
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Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.
Albert Schweitzer
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No religion is genuine unless it be joined with truth.
John Calvin