Truth Quotes

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

Truth is what works.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.