Truth Quotes

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction.

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.