Truth Quotes
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
Gertrude Atherton
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Usually we are saying only part of the truth.
Erno Rubik
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There is a big disincentive to talk about the truth. I will speak the truth.
Geert Wilders
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Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
Saul Bellow
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The truth is in the kisses.
Sandra Bullock
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The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
Elisabeth Elliot
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I'm an actress. To be honest, it's a very awkward business. It's one of those things where it's almost like a first date. There's a way you want to come across. You want to show your goods. The truth starts to slip out sometimes.
Eva Mendes
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Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
Erica Jong
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Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
Gautama Buddha
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The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.
Sarah Dessen
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An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
Eric Maisel
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
Thomas Carlyle
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Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
Norman Douglas
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I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.
Rowan Williams
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History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
Amelia Barr
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When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.
Ray Blanton
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
Erica Jong
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I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.
Michael Jackson
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The truth needs to explain why you are the way you are, why you did what you did.
Ernest Dion Wilson