Truth Quotes
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Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
Anthony Marais
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The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
Augustus William Hare
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When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'
Lev Yilmaz
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People must talk. But they make you popular; that’s the truth.
Majek Fashek
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Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.
Albert Camus
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The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
Denis Donoghue
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Victory cannot tolerate truth.
Nachman of Breslov
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The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs-for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?
Peter Medawar
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
Tom Stoppard
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In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.
Jay-Z
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As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.
Ernst Toller
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I don't speak out of place, but if you ask me, I will definitely speak the truth. Also, my opinion is my opinion. I don't feel the need to force anybody to agree or disagree with me. But if you ask me, I do feel it's important to speak with confidence about my feelings about whatever the questions are.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
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Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.
Gautama Buddha
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In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.
Emily Dickinson
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The well of true wit is truth itself.
George Meredith
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I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.
William Butler Yeats
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If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.
Confucius
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The day for deception is over. The day for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth has come.
Ian Paisley
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Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.
John Stuart Mill
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It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
Walker Percy
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A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.
Peter Thiel