Truth Quotes

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

The media—stenographers to power.

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...

Dementia was like a truth serum.

Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked...

We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, ...

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illuminat...

A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we h...

What moved me was the theme of the harmony which is born only of sacrifice, the twofold experience o...

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not...

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejud...

Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depressio...

Prawda jest córą czasu poczętą w przypadkowym i krótkotrwałym romansie ze zbiegiem okoliczności.

The color of truth is grey.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most ef...

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly sup...

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when ...

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive ...

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint y...

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins...

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the my...

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the ...

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whet...

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make ...

When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. ...

My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, "I am exhau...

Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is ...

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are nece...

There ought to be a while separate language, she thought, for words that are truer than other words ...

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not at...

The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but ...

Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insince...

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free so...

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise re...

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person...

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelmin...

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberatio...

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as trut...

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought...

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ough...

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness f...

It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten t...

What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time ...

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."...

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trust...

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem pr...

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appea...

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-trut...

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in th...

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other ai...

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

Isn't there a flaw in the logic of that phrase - speak truth to power? It assumes that power doesn't...

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it ta...

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to t...

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact...

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.

I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not pr...

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs o...

...oppression is as American as apple pie...

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things tha...

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken,...

The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which...

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon w...

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly acceptin...

Truth always lags last limping along on the arm of Time.

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, ...

To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent...

He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words...

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Red...

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud...

We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for ...

Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the sour...

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to prot...

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Righ...

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. ...

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent t...

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ i...

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world...

Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of exist...