Truth Quotes

• Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

  

  Louis Aragon
  • People
  • Life
  • Black

• The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Slavery
  • Sins
  • Patriotism

• You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that.

  

  Eric Christian Olsen
  • Truth

• Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Makes

• Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.

  

  Ahlam Mosteghanemi
  • Truth
  • Moments
  • Beginnings

• A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Distance

• All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

  

  Jeremy Northam
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Nature

• I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Sacrifice
  • India

• The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Die
  • Speak

• If I could act likeThis was my real life,And not some cage where I've been placed,Well then, I could tell youThe truth like I used toAnd not be afraid of sounding fake.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Life
  • Real
  • Fake

• Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

  

  William James
  • Reality
  • Mean
  • Dictionary

• The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Nature
  • Interesting

• We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

  

  Anne Roiphe
  • People
  • Women
  • Children

• In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth

• There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Real
  • Violence
  • Boxing

• I've been lucky to find people who want to work with me, whom I respect and like, but the truth is there aren't that many good projects out there. And we make way, way too many movies. So it's not always going to happen with every project. But I try and wait it out.

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

  

  John Milton
  • Truth
  • Air

• Science is but an image of the truth.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Truth
  • Science

• What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Truth
  • Desire

• It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.

  

  C. D. Broad
  • World
  • May
  • Would Be

• I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Men
  • Truth

• Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.' I hear people try to do it -- give the five-line summary -- but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • People
  • Trying
  • Giving

• It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Hegemony

• Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Truth

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