Truth Quotes

• By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • May
  • Universe
  • Flower

• The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Growing
  • Revolution

• I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky.. .I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. They don't repeat. And I don't think life does either. It's continually various. That's the truth about life.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Sky

• Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

  

  Mark Van Doren
  • Truth
  • Serious

• Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Truth
  • Value

• When people reject a truth or an untruth it is not because it is a truth or an untruth that they reject it.No, if it isn't in accord with their beliefs in the first place they simply say, 'Nothing doing,' and refuse to inspect it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Truth

• I think the mistake lots of people make when it comes to a psychopath is that they completely write off their actions as cruel, callous and completely calculated, but actually, the truth is that they have interests and reasons behind their actions.

  

  James Norton
  • People
  • Truth
  • Mistake

• How can you know if you are in the truth? The criterion is simple enough: if others make a vacuum around you, there is not a doubt in the world that you are closer to the essential than they are.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • World
  • Simple
  • Doubt

• Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Truth
  • Speak
  • Life Is Short

• Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Today
  • Freedom
  • Fall

• There's only truth and not truth. You're either very good or evil. I went back to my dorm and asked myself what I was. If your principles aren't grounded in absolute truth, you don't know what to think.

  

  Christine O'Donnell
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Evil

• This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

  

  Johann Arndt
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Pride

• People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

  

  Avigdor Lieberman
  • People
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

  

  Harry Frankfurt
  • Truth
  • Lies

• Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Truth
  • Black

• I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities.

  

  Jay Weatherill
  • Truth

• I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • Music
  • Band

• There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.

  

  John Garfield
  • Life
  • Good
  • Together

• The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Today
  • Passion

• Scientists who have thought that they were seeking Truth, but who were trying to find out astronomic, or chemic, or biologic truths. But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete-By Truth I mean the Universal.

  

  Charles Fort
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Question

• The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Great
  • Men
  • Power

• One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Destroyed
  • Substance
  • Immortal

• The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Together

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