Truth Quotes
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If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth.
James Hal Cone
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It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
Harry Frankfurt
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There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
Dorothy Thompson
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Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Pursue truth and people will be true to you.
Arthur Twining Hadley
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Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.
Douglas Southall Freeman
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
Tacitus
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They try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life, and then I got this role and now I’m awesome. But the truth is that I’ve been awesome, and then I got this role.
Gabourey Sidibe
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
Jules Verne
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The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, - either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.
John Ruskin
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I'm not going to say how, specifically, but I will continue to speak out about human rights and freedoms. Absolutely. We can speak out about what we are angry about, but the most important thing is to try and help people understand the reality and not be blinded by something that is not the truth.
Angelina Jolie
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The truth is that I don't work any harder than anyone else in the world. I don't work 18-hour days. I don't stay up until 4 in the morning trying to finish a line.
Adam Schlesinger
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The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.
George Cukor
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Invisibility is a condition of godhead. If folk could see them, they would know the truth, and the Lords Protector would cease to be divine.
Leigh Brackett
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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
Ben Bradlee
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
William James
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The truth is that fear cannot coexist with love. Therefore, we must learn how to dissolve all boundaries with love by taking responsibility for our own energy. In doing so, we'll raise the energy around us.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.
Gregory LeNoir Allman The Allman Brothers Band
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There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
Donald Miller
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True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
Victor Hugo
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I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now.
Eyedea