Truth Quotes
-
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Edward Albee
-
Truth is the trial of itself And needs no other touch, And purer than the purest gold, Refine it ne'er so much.
Ben Jonson
-
The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
Ursula K. Le Guin
-
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.
William Cullen Bryant
-
Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
Ben Harper
-
The truth, ... is that Microsoft has been a monopolist found by a federal judge to have undercut innovation and hence competition and consumer welfare.
Eliot Spitzer
-
When I stepped into the industry, I was dealt this bizarre persona of being this sarcastic fashionista 'it girl' who is friends with loads of celebrities. That couldn't be further from the truth.
Jameela Jamil
-
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
I operate from a place of delusion-that’s what the Fame is all about... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
Lady Gaga
-
It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.
Alan Cumming
-
An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happen that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discovers the truth, because of his own efforts.
Antoni Tapies
-
If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?
Sigmund Freud
-
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. ... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Maya Angelou
-
The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
George Berkeley
-
The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic.
Lynn Collins
-
It think now the only way of getting at the truth of what happened is if somebody who was at that party comes forward with a statement.
Tony Bennett
-
A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.
Cordell Hull
-
There are, I know (it was in our philosophy course in college), at least a hundred different reasons why some particular event takes place. So I thrashed about again trying to find some other truth and in the instant that it flashed through my head, I think I got as close to my raison d’etre as I ever have.
Elaine Dundy
-
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
-
I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.
Adrian Rogers
-
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
Annie Jacobsen
-
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
-
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
David Hare
-
It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
Andy Rooney