Truth Quotes - Page 4

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

The color of truth is gray.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Truth cannot be defeated.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.