Truth Quotes

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

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

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Exactitude is not truth.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.