Truth Quotes

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold ...

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the co...

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a...

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences ...

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approac...

This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any caus...

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut...

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have m...

I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners."Manners!...

We all want to live in a world where we can make a difference... That's why Spider-Man fights the go...

...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it was...

Trust, trust in the world, because this human being exists - that is the most inward achievement of ...

truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

But what help is it to us to look into the constellation of truth? We look into the danger and see t...

Peace if possible but truth at any rate.

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner,...

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner,...

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why...

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom o...

On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and...

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism a...

We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulat...

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Pas...

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and t...

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has re...

What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in ...

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.

For rigorous teachers seized my youth,And purged its faith, and trimmed its fire,Showed me the high,...

Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just ...

The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or the confus...

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal ...

He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her...

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, ...

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but t...

In all truth might it be said that beauty is the unique aliment of our soul, for in all places does ...

For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but e...

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but r...

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of ...

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches...

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they ...

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for...

I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments ...

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depen...

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opi...

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possib...

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men wil...

Words that defy reality are ominous. And it’s ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure...

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yo...

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becom...

Rekao je: Nisu za griješnicima plakali ni nebo ni zemlja. A ja sam mislio: teško čovjeku ako su mu m...

I have come to see this fear, this sense of my own imperilment by my creations, as not only an inevi...

Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destructi...

Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single per...

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

In truth, I'm not really a cat person. Seamus, the wonder dog, still deeply mourned by all who knew ...

Man kann davon überzeugt sein, sich etwas zu wünschen - vielleicht jahrelang - solang man weiß, dass...

In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and...

My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-...

I like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. It's th...

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent

We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms, it ‘excludes’, it...

This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the ...

I speak the truth not so much as I would but as much as I dare and I dare a little more as I gro...

If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God a...

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or ...

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, the...

In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and...

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not ...

Burning cocaine is the worst smell in the world. It smells like burning plastic and rat poison combi...

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest ...

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't...

I believe you!' the artiste exclaimed finally and extinguishes his gaze. 'I do! These eyes are not l...

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

No peace is possible between the novelist and the agélaste [those who do not laugh]. Never having he...

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hi...

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from t...

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the ...

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of th...

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot ...