Truth Quotes
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One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a novel by Albert Camus. Pretty soon you'll be so baffled you'll forget the question.
Gary Reilly
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
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Senator, I'm happy to continue the discussion, but I really hope that you will not imply that I take the truth lightly.
Condoleezza Rice
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The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
Vernon Howard
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
Bear Bryant
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
Rachel Cusk
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It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.
Pope Benedict XVI
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
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There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
Albert Camus
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The truth of the matter is coming up with a title is one of the most challenging things we do.
Channing Dungey
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When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain
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One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.
Geoff Dyer
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. Wilson
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
Sophocles
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I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Immanuel Kant
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If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?
Andrew Sullivan
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You can’t be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
H. P. Lovecraft
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On a number of occasions, I have made it clear that Sinn Fein policy was to argue for the establishment of an independent, international truth commission.
Martin McGuinness
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I smile when I'm angry, I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right, and I'd die for the truth in my secret life.
Leonard Cohen
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus
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Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus
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The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life -- service for others.
Edward Bok