Truth Quotes

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.

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.

I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.