Truth Quotes

• When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.

  

  Anne Lamott
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Caring

• My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.

  

  Jasmila Zbanic
  • Truth

• The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Sick

• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Different
  • Truth

• The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Important
  • Truth

• Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

  

  Jeremy Northam
  • Heart
  • Job
  • Truth

• Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Reality
  • Gossip
  • Rumor

• Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Truth
  • Broken

• Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Revelation

• Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used 'to tell' at all.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Discipline

• A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

  

  F. C. S. Schiller
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Facts

• Verily we know nothing. Truth is buried deep. (Another translation: 'Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well.' Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers R.D. Hicks, Ed.)

  

  Democritus
  • Truth
  • Deep

• I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.

  

  Gabrielle Hamilton
  • Real
  • Pearls
  • About Yourself

• Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

  

  John Milton
  • World
  • Truth

• If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it is by... chance that I arrive at the truth, and I shall still be at fault.... In this incorrect use of free will may be found the privation which constitutes the essence of error.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Free
  • Error
  • Fault

• Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • God
  • Truth
  • Reality

• 'Bring forth the horse!' - the horse was brought;In truth, he was a noble steed,A Tartar of the Ukraine breed,Who look'd as though the speed of thoughtWere in his limbs.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Truth
  • Horse

• Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Truth
  • War

• I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People
  • Truth

• Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • God
  • Truth
  • Reality

• My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

  

  Frank Dobson
  • Support
  • Party
  • Drug

• I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Light
  • Alone
  • Errors

• The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.

  

  Christopher McQuarrie
  • Life
  • Real
  • Violence

• I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.

  

  Daniel Smith
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

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