Truth Quotes
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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock
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You've got to tell the truth, ... And if you don't tell the truth, then everything else you say goes into question.
Chris Shays
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Isabell, she treads so lightly, floating in her gipsy dresses
Even as her words cut deep, I can't deny the truth in them
On the phone, she talks a lot, and me, I listen hopelessly
So directionless, I head into oblivion
And then I decide to give another random memory
To remind her of the first time we sang out to the sea
Oh Isabell, you always understood me
Please Isabell, forgive me now
Ben Jelen
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound
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In the Land of Truth, my friend, the man with one fact is King.
David Rasche
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What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.
Jimmy Carter
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Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.
Joanne Rowling
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'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.
Michel Foucault
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Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.
Ivar Giaever
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History is not history unless it is the truth.
Abraham Lincoln
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.
Mother Teresa
