Truth Quotes
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
Bob Schieffer
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The truth is that I am a very independent person and I've always been. That probably damaged some of my relationships with men.
Bronagh Gallagher
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When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.
Gene Robinson
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
John Dryden
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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
James Russell Lowell
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The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.
Laura Anne Gilman
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Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not Always spoken the truth in my books? And now You treat me like a liar! I order you: Burn me! Those who lead the country into the abyss Call ruling too difficult For ordinary men. Ah, what an age it is When to speak of trees is almost a crime For it is a kind of silence about injustice!
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
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[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.
Elmore Leonard
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I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.
Kanye West
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What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.
Oprah Winfrey
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Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.
Peter Mullan
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I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession
Alfred Stieglitz
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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
J. D. Salinger
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I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
Danny Aiello
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Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
William James
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You will never, I think, fully conquer the play. Every night, you see this Everest before you. It's that two, three hours and the audience, and you'd better tell the truth.
David Oyelowo
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I want people to know my truth. Unconditional love of God and each other.
Andra Day
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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
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To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.
Brian Greene
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I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.
George C. Wolfe
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Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.
Aristotle
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The truth is - and this is corny - I fall more in love with Portia all the time. I really do. She surprises me all the time.
Ellen DeGeneres