Truth Quotes

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Seek truth from facts.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.