Truth Is famous quotes
04-19-2025
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Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.
-- A. J. Burnett -
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
-- Abu Bakr -
To seek Truth is to deny Truth to being with. To seek Truth is to avoid Truth, constantly.
-- Adi Da -
Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.
-- Adi Da -
If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.
-- Adrian Rogers -
There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
-- Adrienne Rich -
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
-- Adyashanti -
Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
-- Adyashanti -
The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
-- Adyashanti -
The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
-- Al Pacino -
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
-- Alain Badiou -
Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.
-- Alan Arkin -
Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.
-- Albert Camus -
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
-- Albert Einstein -
It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.
-- Albert Pike -
Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.
-- Alec Soth -
To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
-- Alfred Loisy -
Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
-- Alice Childress -
Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Truth is neither in the scripture nor in the words of prophets. It is in your heart, feel it, discover it and expand with it.
-- Amit Ray -
Truth is often attended with danger.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus -
The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away.
-- Amy Pascal -
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
-- Amy Poehler -
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
-- Andre Maurois -
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
Truth is like a wild animal; let it loose and it will defend itself!
-- Andy Andrews -
It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.
-- Angelina Grimke -
The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.
-- Anne Rice -
One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Telling the truth is always revolutionary
-- Antonio Gramsci -
The truth is that perhaps everything has a price, but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies.
-- Anuj -
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
-- Aristophanes -
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
-- Aristotle -
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
-- Aristotle -
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.
-- Aristotle -
Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.
-- Arthur Alfred Lynch -
Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
-- Arthur Eddington -
Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.
-- Arthur Lynch -
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
-- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley -
First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.
-- Barney Hoskyns -
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
-- Barry Humphries -
There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.
-- Barry N. Malzberg -
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
-- Bear Grylls -
The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
-- Ben Affleck -
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
-- Ben Jonson -
The truth is that the glory of God is the person and presence of God- The glory is the Holy Spirit .
-- Benny Hinn -
A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
-- Bernard Williams -
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
-- Bill Watterson -
Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.
-- Billy Graham -
But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
-- Black Francis -
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
-- Blaise Pascal -
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
-- Blaise Pascal -
Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.
-- Blaize Clement -
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.
-- Bob Dylan -
The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.
-- Bob Dylan -
In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.
-- Bradley Denton -
I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.
-- Brandi Carlile -
All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.
-- Brian Perkins -
So don’t let anybody tell you that you’re not loved and don’t let anybody tell you that you’re not enough, Yeah there are days that we all feel like we’re messed up, But the truth is that we’re all diamonds in the rough...
-- Britt Nicole -
To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.
-- Brother Lawrence -
The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.
-- Bruce D. Perry -
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.
-- Byron Katie -
The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
-- Byron Katie -
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
-- C. S. Lewis -
People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.
-- Carol Plum-Ucci -
Truth be told, there is not one day that goes by when I don't fall in love with someone, with something.
-- Carole Maso -
And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
-- Carson McCullers -
Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?
-- Cecily von Ziegesar -
We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.
-- Charles A. Reich -
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
-- Charles Bradlaugh -
Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.
-- Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling -
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
-- Charles Olson -
Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
-- Charley Reese -
A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.
-- Charlotte Armstrong
