Truth Quotes

Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell y...

Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone els...

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the hea...

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

The best lies are based on thetruth, at least in part

Well, I want novels,' said Tessa. 'Or poetry. Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into li...

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

A steady flame unwavering & honest

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in...

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge.

Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your br...

There is truth in stories. There is truth in one of your paintings, boy, or in a sunset or a couplet...

I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship o...

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. ...

The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively...

You understand, we just don't fuck with truth.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can ...

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth...

hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.

Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paintsHemingway testing his shotgunCe...

the gods play nofavorites.

regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has bee...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ...

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to di...

We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to ...

"It was as true" said Mr. Barkus "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are ...

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau...

Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my...

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so w...

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and y...

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...

I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked.""We shall...

The truth has become an insult.

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. The...

If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the...

Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosi...

The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates th...

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up ...

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blosso...

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will...

The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This str...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has ...

But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views...

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

Presidents lie all the time. Really great presidents lie. Abraham Lincoln managed to end slavery in ...

Hitler is the human catch-all for all other terrible humans.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

But I still feel like I lost.We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifet...

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every com...

The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of n...

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a...

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watc...

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch...

Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the inter...

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the t...

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe until the event. Until it's too late. In th...

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. I...

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat t...

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affl...

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is ther...

That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true.""That's becaus...

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every mom...

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderfu...

Until you can leave the matter of forgiveness to God, you will not have acquired true humility.

Die Wahrheit hat keinen Erfolg.

He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The v...

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of o...

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched ...

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not ...

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she shou...

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she sho...