Truth Quotes
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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
Larry David
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Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.
Maimonides
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I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie 'cause there's like a dual mystery, she's searching through her haunted past to find some truth and she's also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer.
Philip Kaufman
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
Ferran Adria
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling the truth. That upsets me.
John McEnroe
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
Abbe Pierre
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When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
Lucian Freud
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The gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's always a truth in specific. The gospel is never a commentary on ideas or cultures or conditions; it's always about actual persons, actual pains, actual troubles, actual sin; you, me; who you are and what you've done; who I am and what I've done.
Eugene H. Peterson
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
Wendell Berry
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The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
Albert Einstein
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. Forbes
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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Khalil Gibran
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
Edmund White
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Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.
Hans Rosling
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'The Whole Truth' was a mistake.
Maura Tierney
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The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.
Victoria Osteen
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Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.
Jake Roberts
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
David Douglass
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Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
H. P. Lovecraft
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There are many who profess to be religious and speak of themselves as Christians, and, according to one such, "as accepting the scriptures only as sources of inspiration and moral truth," and then ask in their smugness: "Do the revelations of God give us a handrail to the kingdom of God, as the Lord's messenger told Lehi, or merely a compass?"
Harold B. Lee
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You have to go where the truth takes you, and that doesn't always take you in exactly the same place where people you speak to might want,or suspects may want. That's your ultimate obligation.
David Grann
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When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare