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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Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
Albert Camus
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Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
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"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
Judy Blume
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In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.
Edwin Thompson Jaynes
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The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
Noah Webster
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Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.
Georges Bernanos
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Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
William James
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Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
William James
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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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Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.
Eugene Ionesco
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As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.
Johnathon Schaech
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He was so disrespectful that it was believed that he spoke truth.
Barry Pain
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It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.
Barbara Marciniak
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Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.
Steve Bisley
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Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.
Michael Jackson
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.
Gautama Buddha
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
Tertullian
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The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.
Sarah Pinborough
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
Alexandre Dumas
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Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably be found in the thoughts we have when awake, rather than in our dreams.
Rene Descartes
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Sometimes the truth, told right, was the best lie.
Elizabeth Bear