Truth Quotes
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'The great commandment of the narratives is that your life must be meaningful,' said Charon. 'If knowing the truth strips the meaning away, then the truth must be suppressed.'
Karl Schroeder
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
Carl Bernstein
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The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it.
Marquis de Condorcet
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If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.
Walid Jumblatt
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I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.
Ann Hood
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.
Fritz Perls
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Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?
Orson Scott Card
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The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Aristotle
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Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.
Plato
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My faith was eventually what helped me face myself, tell the truth about everything I had done, face criticism, cope with guilt, pain, and grow from all of it.
Andra Day
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I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth. Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth. It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play. Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
Maggie Rowe
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I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
Buddha
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Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exhaust.
C. J. Mahaney
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
Zach Braff
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The truth is that I love my baby to bits, but the rest of it sucked. Pregnancy was the biggest killer for me. I hated it - I hated being fat.
Jaime Pressly
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The truth is supposed to hurt. That's how it lets you know you don't got it.
Brad Stine
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What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
Patrick Henry
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.
Neale Donald Walsch
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Authority is no source for Truth.
Aristotle