Truth Quotes
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If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.
Elisabeth Elliot
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The truth is true wherever you find it. Remember, sugar is sweet whether you find it in a sugar bowl or a dust pan.
Ernest Holmes
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As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth.
Catherine the Great
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Henrik Ibsen
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Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.
Eugene Ionesco
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What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?
Claire Messud
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Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Michael Jackson
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The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.
Brigham Young
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The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.
Harry Crews
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I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
Clare Short
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The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.
James G. Frazer
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
Thomas Carlyle
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After all the years of spiritual work, ... I've realized this: that everything and everyone is precious beyond words. Everything and everyone is holy. And the point of our being on this sweet planet is to be of service to all of it. And when we understand this truth in our bones, joy fills our hearts.
Geri Larkin
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Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.
Michael Jackson
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Do the truth quietly without display.
Brennan Manning
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
Thomas Carlyle
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Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.
Nathanael Emmons
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Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.
Stephen Root
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Today I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before, that someone who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair program.
Michael Jackson
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Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.
Emanuel Lasker
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When everyone jokes about (taking chances), there's a little bit of truth to it, ... Hopefully people have learned from what happened (at Sonoma).
Helio Castroneves