Truth Quotes
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The truth is, you don't ever decide on a role, not when you first begin. You audition for the role, and you're lucky to get it.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
Kabir
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All that you are attached to, all that you love, all that you know, someday will be gone. Knowing this, and that the world is your mind which you create, play in, and suffer from, is known as discrimination. Discriminate between the Real and the Unreal, the known is unreal and will come and go so stay with the Unknown, the Unchanging, the Truth.
H. W. L. Poonja
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Truth, like love, is never absolute.
E. Lynn Harris
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We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.
J. J. Abrams
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Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies to tell a greater truth. The story is a mask; the characters you create are masks. That appeals to me. Aside from that, too, in the carnival the masks were beautiful, and offered a vision of Haitian creativity.
Edwidge Danticat
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Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
Leonardo da Vinci
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An attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth. (No. 11, p. 27)
Dave Sim
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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
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Once you embrace the absolute truth that every leader needs a mentor, you can begin to achieve the massive growth and success that you seek.
Clay Clark
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I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.
Kris Carr
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Heresy is the refusal to speak the truth or to live the truth in the light of the One who is the Truth.
James Hal Cone
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If Americans will face the truth, our nation can be turned around and can be saved from the evils and the destruction that have fallen upon every other nation that has turned its back on God.
Jerry Falwell
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Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.
Don Sutton
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I understand that people in the media want this to be a sprint every day, but the truth is a presidential campaign is a marathon.
Joel Benenson
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"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.
C. S. Lewis
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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
David Hare
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The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.
Matthew Scully
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There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.
Mary Hart
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Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.
Ellen Willis