Truth Quotes
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I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.
Alma Katsu
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The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?
Athol Fugard
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...Why are all these masks winking?" Jason pointed around the room with his fork. The loremaster dabbed at his mouth with a frilled purple napkin. "One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.
Brandon Mull
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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
Scott Westerfeld
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Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.
Alfie Kohn
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How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
Albert Camus
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When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.
Mariah Carey
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The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.
Bill Gates
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There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.
George Holyoake
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Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.
Plato
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What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.
Marianne Williamson
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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember.
Abraham Lincoln
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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
George Eliot
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Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information.
Ivan Krastev
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I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
Moliere
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There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
Jim Lehrer
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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
Kabir
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This duel of consideration for one another that they had conducted for the last sixteen years involved shifting the truth about between them or withholding it altogether and was called good manners or affection, supposed to smooth the humdrum or prickly path of everyday married life. Its tyranny was apparent to neither.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times.
Muhammad Ali
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No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Martha Beck
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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