Truth Quotes
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
William Faulkner
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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.
Thomas Carlyle
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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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The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.
Nolan Bushnell
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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
Scott Westerfeld
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The lie described my life better than the truth. Until it became a kind of truth.
Ben Lerner
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If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot
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“Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
Hypatia
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
Bernard Crick
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The only atheism is the denial of truth.
Arthur Lynch
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We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.
Sigmund Freud
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All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
George R. R. Martin
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I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.
Sarah Pinborough
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Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.
Steve Wynn
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Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.
Colm Wilkinson
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Pablo Picasso
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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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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember.
Abraham Lincoln
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Truth, like climate, is common property.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.
Nikolai Berdyaev
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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
Thomas Carlyle
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I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.
Tom Hanks