Truth Quotes

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.

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

We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.