Truth Quotes - Page 5

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

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

Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

The truth is nobody was a Muslim until Public Enemy came out. Then, everybody was Muslim this and Muslim that. It's a bandwagon thing. Islam is a way of life... it's a religion. It's not just something you put on a record.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.