Truth Quotes
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There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth.
Lord Byron
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There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
Dale Carnegie
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Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.
Vaclav Havel
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God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds.
Marianne Williamson
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And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.
C. S. Lewis
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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise Pascal
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Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The prosecution has to go with the evidence and the facts and tell the story as it happened. The defense has more creative freedom. All you have to do is look for a defense that works. But it doesn't have to be the truth. Sometimes you get lucky and it is, but sometimes you don't, and either way, it doesn't matter.
Marcia Clark
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Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
S. N. Goenka
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As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.
Amy Waldman
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The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.
Roberto Benigni
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The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.
John Calvin
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Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.
Anastas Mikoyan
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One unscrupulous distortion of the truth tends to beget other and opposite distortions.
Aldous Huxley
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When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
Michael Ryan Pritchard Green Day
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And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.
Colin Mochrie
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Nature is one. There is only one truth in life. We have a single universe, which has a sole creator.
Amitabh Bachchan
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When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
Bill Copeland
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Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
Astro Teller
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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
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We have to have Internet streaming with truth out there. We have to have folks who are peacefully protesting, telling the truth. And the heart of America will begin to melt in the face of truth and charity.
Alveda King
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When we share Christ, the Truth behind our transformation, we are offering people an opportunity to be transformed.
David Jeremiah