Truth Quotes
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story!
Leila Slimani
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - ''Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
Saint Augustine
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This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.
Georgiana Burne-Jones
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Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
Thomas Aquinas
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When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.
Mary J. Blige
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The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.
J. I. Packer
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Truth rides best In that which looks ridiculous.
Eugene J. Martin
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Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
Matthew Pearl
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
John Major
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Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.
Randy Alcorn
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The truth is that the driver in policy is not the relationship between the United States and Cuba, but the relationship between Cubans, and that is far stronger than 50 years of intragovernment hostility.
Joe Garcia
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A deal that would conceal the truth in this affair was never even considered.
Amr Moussa
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As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.
Brion Gysin
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A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
Steve Martin
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
Max Frisch
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Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?
C. H. Dodd
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Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.
John Arbuthnot
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I think, to me, I always want to tell the truth. I never want to sugarcoat things. I've never been accused of pulling punches.
Lena Waithe
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Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.
Diane Ackerman
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Doubt is the shadow of truth.
Philip James Bailey