Truth Quotes
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And the supreme glory of all this, my love, is to think that maybe this isn't true, neither may I believe it true.And when lying starts giving us pleasure, let's speak the truth so that we lie to it.
Fernando Pessoa
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
Gary Hamel
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I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
Abbey Lincoln
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Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.
B. B. King
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
Harold Pinter
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
I. F. Stone
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Barack Obama
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If you're on the fence about speaking your truth or sharing your world with a greater audience, don't be. We need each other badly.
Kerby Jean-Raymond
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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
Natalie Goldberg
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A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!
Joey Bishop
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Taking a statement from anyone can be a long process on account of the fact that your average member of the public wouldn’t know the truth if it donned a pink tutu and danced in front of them singing the Chicken Song.
Ben Aaronovitch
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To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
Kate Forsyth
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
Candice S. Miller
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Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.
Bikram Choudhury
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I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.
T. C. Boyle
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The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.
Ayumi Hamasaki
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie
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A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.
Yunus Emre
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
Al Pacino
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Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.
Dan Jenkins
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I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.
Garry Shandling