Truth Quotes

• On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Trying
  • True
  • Funny

• Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Why
  • Education
  • College

• There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Conversation
  • Hearing

• What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Lie

• I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Language
  • Comfortable

• I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • World
  • Truth
  • Humanity

• Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

  

  Czeslaw Milosz
  • May
  • Reality
  • Small

• The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Done
  • Truth

• Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

  

  Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Truth
  • Value
  • Effectiveness

• The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sad
  • Darkness
  • Sadness

• Peter's faith had many a shaking, but it was established upon the truth of his God, upon the person and work and righteousness of Jesus Christ.

  

  E. W. Bullinger
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Tread

• We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

  

  Lucretia Mott
  • Truth

• The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Truth

• The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged 'truth' which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Free
  • Knowledge
  • Respect

• The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Heart
  • America
  • Strong

• But the truth is the highest consideration.

  

  Dorothy Dix
  • Truth
  • Consideration

• In truth, I've never been a big superhero fan. I don't mind some of the movies, and a couple of the cartoons were alright - that Batman series from the early nineties where Mark Hamill voiced the Joker is sweetness. But largely, I've not really had much time for superheroes.

  

  Ben Peek
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Couple

• The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Truth
  • Idea
  • Triumphs

• It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

  

  Alan Rudolph
  • Truth
  • Lies

• Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Safe

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