Truth Quotes

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Justice is truth in action.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.

No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.