Truth Quotes
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
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I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.
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Drug reformers need to be hyper-vigilant. I understand that when you've been oppressed so long, so thirsty for truth, that when someone comes along and gives you a sip of water, you think that they're the savior. But in that water there may be cyanide.
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But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.
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I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.
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The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.
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It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.
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Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
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Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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The most powerful way to tell the truth is with documentation. Then nobody can say it’s a ‘he says, she says’ situation.
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It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth.
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Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.
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Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed.
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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery.
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
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A fear-based faith distorts a lot of things, but what it distorts the most is the reflection we see in the mirror. Fear has a way of reflecting ugliness and distorted realities--lies with the appearance of truth--and gives us the false impression that fear tells the truth while concealing the reality that fear is a liar. It may be a good liar because it mixes fact with fiction, but it's a liar nonetheless. The reflections of fear must never be trusted, no matter how many nuggets of truth may be mixed in those ugly waters.
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The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!
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Good newspapers believe in giving a balanced view of the world. Fine. Some people then exploit that belief and use it to balance truth with falsehood.
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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
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Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.
