Truth Quotes

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.

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.

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

The color of truth is gray.

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.