Truth Quotes
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A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history.
Catherynne M. Valente
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General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.
William Dean Howells
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And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.
William Cowper
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The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.
Alexander MacLaren
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
Hannah Arendt
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Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.
Erwin McManus
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"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
Charles Dickens
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It's always best to tell the truth.
Rudyard Kipling
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Truth never perishes.
Seneca the Younger
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Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
Michael Caine
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The search for the Torah codes is rooted in the unfathomable theological premise that the Torah - itself a set of five books of limited length - contains literally all truth.
Benjamin Wittes
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The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. Landays, they're about love and pleasure and oppression and levels of oppression within a family. And because of that, I think rap music is probably closely related.
Eliza Griswold
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Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.
Francis Chan
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If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory.
Judy Sheindlin
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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .
George Eliot
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“I believe,” he said, “that there is a special place in hell for those who steal truth. And that man - whoever he is - I hope he is burning there.
Courtney Milan
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Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.
Christina Stead
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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
Rudyard Kipling
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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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If you love the truth, you can remember it.
Brigham Young
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He was so disrespectful that it was believed that he spoke truth.
Barry Pain
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But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.
Nikola Tesla