Truth Quotes
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And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.
Saint Augustine
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When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.
Melanie Laurent
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The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
John Locke Nazareth
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If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton.
Lou Doillon
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Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, a football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.
Paddy Chayefsky
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If you want real truth, I'll tell you real truth, even though I know a lot of people aren't gonna like it.
Dizzee Rascal
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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
Ivan Turgenev
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I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
William Tyndale
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Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.
John Milton
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The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
Mario Cuomo
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There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.
Don Henley The Eagles
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All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.
Bill Oberst Jr.
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The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.
Joan Didion
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I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.
Antonio de Mendoza
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When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
James Nachtwey
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Death is funny in that it brings out the best and the worst in people. It casts light on the truth and makes life blindingly clear. The reality was starting to set in.
Allison DuBois
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Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
Matt Haig
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A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.
David Brewster
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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
Cesare Pavese
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It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
Ken Kesey
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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Lech Walesa
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
John Locke Nazareth