Truth Quotes
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To-day we have fewer dogmas, but I think that we have stronger principles. By a dogma I mean a deduction from facts which is only valid under certain conditions, and which becomes untrue if those conditions change. By a principle I mean something that is an eternal and universal truth.
John Buchan
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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Khalil Gibran
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All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
Edward R. Murrow
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I want people to... not be afraid of their truth.
Andra Day
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There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.
Vaclav Havel
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It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
David Blaine
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I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.
Lee Daniels
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The truth is we're all searching. We're all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I'm by no means someone to follow.
Jason Momoa
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I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'
Daniel Craig
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The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down to earth, remolding them into practical forms, imbuing them with vitality, and then making use of them, has been a long one.
Bertha von Suttner
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The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.
Jean Baudrillard
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain
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It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.
Anthony Trollope
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It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.
D. A. Carson
