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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
Benjamin Disraeli"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint"
Exupery"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."
Iris Murdoch"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
James A. Garfield"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."
Elvis Presley"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
Virginia Woolf"Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away."
Ismail Haniyeh"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
Henry David Thoreau"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Oscar Wilde"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
Buddha"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
C. S. Lewis"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth."
Maya Angelou"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
Mark Twain"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
William Shakespeare"Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth."
Shel Silverstein"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Thomas Jefferson"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
Simone de Beauvoir"Be truthful, nature only sides with truth."
Adolf Loos"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."
Henry Rollins"Truth exists; only lies are invented."
Georges Braque"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
Wallace Stevens"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
Rene Descartes"Facts are many, but the truth is one."
Rabindranath Tagore"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."
Antisthenes"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
Denis Diderot"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
Albert Einstein"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."
George Washington"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
Winston Churchill"We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us."
Gore Vidal"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."
Ludwig Borne"Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it."
Jean Rostand"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie."
Bob Dylan"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."
Buddha"My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it."
Whitney Houston"The truth is more important than the facts."
Frank Lloyd Wright"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
Galileo Galilei"Betrayal is the only truth that sticks."
Arthur Miller"By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth."
Peter Abelard"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."
Andy Rooney"A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth."
Patrick Murray"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
Winston Churchill"I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it."
Martin Henderson"Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast."
Tom Waits"The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless."
John McCain"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
Alan Watts"John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that."
Tom Bodett"Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?"
Dave Sim"Adversity is the first path to truth."
Lord Byron"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
William Blake"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
George Bernard Shaw"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."
Walt Whitman"Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality."
George Lucas"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."
Thomas Mann"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
Winston Churchill"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."
David Bowie"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."
W. Clement Stone"There are no facts, only interpretations."
Friedrich Nietzsche"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation."
Michael Jackson"There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
Jean Giraudoux"To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true."
Bayard Rustin"Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end."
Sid Caesar"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
Hannah Arendt"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
Leo Tolstoy"I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me."
Drake"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please."
Mary Harris Jones"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
Aldous Huxley"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
Giordano Bruno"There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying."
Josh Billings"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
Martin Luther King, Jr."An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."
Mahatma Gandhi"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."
Robert H. Schuller"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."
Mahatma Gandhi"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."
Coco Chanel"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
Lillian Hellman"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."
Albert Einstein"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."
Friedrich Nietzsche"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent."
John Calvin"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
John Keats"My longing for truth was a single prayer."
Edith Stein"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
Abraham Lincoln"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'."
Dan Rather"I can prove anything by statistics except the truth."
George Canning"Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life."
Jordan Peterson"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
Max Planck"The truth is, the harder you fight, the sweeter are the rewards in the end."
Mary Kom"Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care."
Bikram Choudhury"No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear."
Aaron Brown"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."
Marcus Tullius Cicero"Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective."
Siri Hustvedt"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Jane Austen"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames."
Thomas Moore"The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect."
Brene Brown"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it."
Patrick Henry"Peace if possible, truth at all costs."
Martin Luther"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
Leo Tolstoy"Facts are stubborn things."
Ronald Reagan"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."
Henri Frederic Amiel"What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that."
Tracey Emin"Light is the symbol of truth."
James Russell Lowell"The intuition of free will gives us the truth."
Corliss Lamont"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."
J. K. Rowling"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."
Matthew Arnold"A lot of truth is said in jest."
Eminem"Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth."
Menachem Begin"There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness."
Frank Ocean"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton"A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men."
Patrick Kavanagh"Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth."
Helen Thomas"Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth."
Alan Rudolph"A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on."
James Callaghan"The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth."
Feisal Abdul Rauf"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
Blaise Pascal"It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth."
Francois Rabelais"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
Hiram Johnson"The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. -Kim Il"
sung"The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking."
Wayne Dyer"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled."
Paul Eldridge"I'm interested in two things. I'm interested in truth and I'm interested in fairness."
John Kennedy"Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth."
Victor Borge"Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie."
Mark Goulston"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect."
Jiddu Krishnamurti"Silence is the mother of truth."
Benjamin Disraeli"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
Emile Zola"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."
Mark Twain"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
John F. Kennedy"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."
Swami Vivekananda"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."
Pablo Picasso"There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison."
Andre Maurois"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."
Alfred Lord Tennyson"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it."
Tacitus"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
Jerome K. Jerome"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Jesus Christ"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."
Mahatma Gandhi"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant."
H. L. Mencken"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."
Deepak Chopra"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."
Blaise Pascal"The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice."
Gloria Estefan"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."
Jules Verne"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
Albert Einstein"No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth."
Martha Beck"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."
Walter Cronkite"The most powerful element in advertising is the truth."
William Bernbach"All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque."
Tom Stoppard"'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us."
Brene Brown"They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day."
Peter Maurer"I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth."
River Phoenix"Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth."
Stan Laurel"The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's the thing about the truth. That's the thing about real. It doesn't change and it doesn't have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it's still real. It's still the truth."
DMX"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."
William Shenstone"The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it."
Emile Zola"Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth."
J. Michael Straczynski"Truth is, I love everyone that is a good person regardless of what they look like, walk like, or who they love."
Doja Cat"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Barbara Kingsolver"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
Stephen King"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."
Herman Melville"Country music is three chords and the truth."
Harlan Howard"As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening."
Alice Walker"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
Charles Caleb Colton"I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift."
Mos Def"I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context."
Gordon B. Hinckley"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."
John F. Kennedy"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
Barbara Kingsolver"Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way."
Hosea Ballou"Sincerity is moral truth."
George Henry Lewes"Learn what is true in order to do what is right."
Thomas Huxley"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."
Albert Einstein"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."
Emily Dickinson"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."
Khalil Gibran"When in doubt tell the truth."
Mark Twain"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'"
Abraham Lincoln"Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around."
Frank A. Clark"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality."
Steven Biko"The object of the superior man is truth."
Confucius"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."
Anne Lamott"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either."
Aesop"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
Arthur Conan Doyle"Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."
Bob Marley"Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving."
James E. Faust"The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances."
Andrew J. Bernstein"We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers."
Helen Thomas"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."
Charles Dickens"My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'"
Pink"Most jokes state a bitter truth."
Larry Gelbart"Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often."
Maz Jobrani"The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject."
Tony Evans"Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth."
Liu Xiaobo"If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian."
James D. Watson"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
Edith Sitwell"The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?"
Henry Louis Gates"The truth is that the right decision often can't be led with either head or heart exclusively."
Chris Harrison"I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth."
Brad Pitt"You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known."
Mary Leakey"A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth."
Michael Kinsley"You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth."
Jane Fonda"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in."
Harry S Truman"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel"Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis."
Michael Ignatieff"The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love."
William Sloane Coffin"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow."
Ambrose Bierce"If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed."
Sheri Fink"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."
Aldous Huxley"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."
Ursula K. Le Guin"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"
Friedrich Nietzsche"Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous."
H. P. Lovecraft"The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it."
Dorothy L. Sayers"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
Albert Camus"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
John Keats"I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it."
Douglas Adams"Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense."
Leo Rosten"The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence."
Rabindranath Tagore"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
Willa Cather"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."
Emily Dickinson"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
Bruce Lee"Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion."
David Icke"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth."
Niels Bohr"The first reaction to truth is hatred."
Tertullian"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
Hunter S. Thompson"Truth is powerful and it prevails."
Sojourner Truth"Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it."
Mary Baker Eddy"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."
Norman Schwarzkopf"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."
Aesop"Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting."
William Randolph"Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."
Miguel de Cervantes"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
Andre Gide"Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide."
Ice Cube"There's is a fine line between living one's truth and looking good."
Amala Akkineni"The Way is the beginning of the ten thousand things and the guiding thread of truth and falsity."
Han Fei"You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don't have a friend who's going to tell you the truth every time something comes up, you feel like he's not a true friend."
Donald Driver"If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all."
Jed Mercurio"Truth is what works."
William James"Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go."
Arthur Rubinstein"The truth always finds it's way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails."
Tyler Hamilton"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted."
James Madison"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want."
Muhammad Ali"I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life... But I'm not a romantic. I'm just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice."
Future"It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear."
Henry David Thoreau"Tell the truth and shame the devil."
Francois Rabelais"The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself."
J. M. Coetzee"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
Thomas Jefferson"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves."
John McCain"We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth."
Charles Stanley"Any truth is better than indefinite doubt."
Arthur Conan Doyle"Half a truth is often a great lie."
Benjamin Franklin"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it."
Herodotus"Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer"The universe is transformation: life is opinion."
Marcus Aurelius"The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it."
Clarence Darrow"Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth."
Swami Vivekananda"Justice is truth in action."
Benjamin Disraeli"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
Mark Twain"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."
Stephen King"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."
Shana Alexander"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
Unknown"There is no truth. There is only perception."
Gustave Flaubert"If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth."
Jeremy Clarkson"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
Friedrich Nietzsche"It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth."
Gao Xingjian"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
Vladimir Lenin"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."
Shakira"I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power."
George Harrison"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan"Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth."
Marcel Marceau"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul."
Arnold Bennett"Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth."
Nipsey Hussle"That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity."
Rumi"Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity."
Kenneth Scott Latourette"The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little."
Kevin Rudd"Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality."
Linus Pauling"There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth."
Alice Cary"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."
Orson Scott Card"One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are."
Cal Thomas"After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth."
Helene Deutsch"As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population."
Sam Harris"Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love."
William Shakespeare"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
Khalil Gibran"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."
W. Clement Stone"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
Adlai Stevenson I"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie."
Wole Soyinka"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."
Carl von Clausewitz"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails."
Clarence Darrow"Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail."
Mary Astell"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."
Hunter S. Thompson"Truth is a tendency."
R. Buckminster Fuller"Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind."
Giordano Bruno"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
Friedrich Nietzsche"Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked."
Peter Guber"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
Francis Bacon"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."
Maya Angelou"The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon."
Angelina Jolie"I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart."
Sue Monk Kidd"I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit."
Bill Hicks"Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?"
Guru Nanak"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."
Arthur Conan Doyle"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
Thomas Jefferson"I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies."
Pietro Aretino"My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic - that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth."
Taika Waititi"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
John Keats"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver."
Vernon Howard"There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible."
Gottfried Leibniz"One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything."
Malcolm Muggeridge"Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth."
Stephen Vincent Benet"Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power. -Alexandria Ocasio"
Cortez"The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance."
Yngwie Malmsteen"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. -Jean"
Jacques Rousseau"The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth."
Robert Greene"Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."
Isaac Newton"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart."
Blaise Pascal"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."
C. S. Lewis"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."
Aristotle"Truth disappears with the telling of it."
Lawrence Durrell"A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
Albert Camus"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
Edgar Allan Poe"Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. -Edward G. Bulwer"
Lytton"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
Edgar Allan Poe"The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth."
Chanakya"There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find."
George Michael"Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good."
Petrarch"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."
Don Miguel Ruiz"I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking."
Charles Krauthammer"Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life."
Shakuntala Devi"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."
Lech Walesa"Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar."
J. Edgar Hoover"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
Theodor W. Adorno"Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task."
Harold Pinter"When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!"
Don Miguel Ruiz"All truth is not to be told at all times."
Samuel Butler"Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again."
Ravi Zacharias"No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom."
Dean Ornish"Surgeon generals are appointed by presidents, but our work isn't about politics. Our highest duty to to the public. Our true guide is science. Our job is to speak the truth about public health, even when it's controversial or perceived as political."
Vivek Murthy"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
Francis Bacon"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."
Joseph Conrad"Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard."
Lee Mack"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."
Thomas Mann"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth."
Sophocles"Truth is exact correspondence with reality."
Paramahansa Yogananda"I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be."
Iyanla Vanzant"Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said."
Mel Brooks"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality."
Frank Herbert"There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services."
J. B. Pritzker"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."
Friedrich Nietzsche"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have."
Elizabeth Bowen"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."
Khalil Gibran"Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth."
Justin Timberlake"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."
Mark Twain"Live truth instead of professing it."
Elbert Hubbard"Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise."
Horace Mann"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."
Anais Nin"Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that."
Nathan Lane"I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it."
Hans Eysenck"People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it."
Avigdor Lieberman"In life, if you don't know the truth, then you can't be free, because then you'll believe that the lies are the truth. But once we realize that when we read the Word of God, and you know the truth of who you are, then I'm not a man without arms and legs. I am a child of God."
Nick Vujicic"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
Friedrich Nietzsche"Life is full of awe and grace and truth, mystery and wonder. I live in that atmosphere."
Dion DiMucci"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job."
Samuel Goldwyn"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
Chanakya"Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does."
Helen Hayes"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."
Herman Melville"Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil."
Menander"Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest."
NeNe Leakes"I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad."
Matt Mullenweg"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."
Harry S Truman"Wisdom is found only in truth."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness."
David Whyte"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
Friedrich Nietzsche"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
Michel de Montaigne"Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie."
Barbara Kruger"There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way."
Henry Rollins"Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth."
Phaedrus"Virtue is the fount whence honour springs."
Christopher Marlowe"The words of truth are always paradoxical."
Lao Tzu"Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society."
Thomas Jefferson"It does not require many words to speak the truth."
Chief Joseph"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come."
Ellen DeGeneres"Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour."
Tom Hanks"When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'"
William Wallace"Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite. -Kim Jong"
un"If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences."
H. P. Lovecraft"I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone."
Kendrick Lamar"A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself."
James Allen"When you meet with someone and you try to assess whether they're telling you the truth or not, there's several things you can do. You judge demeanor and credibility. You look at corroboration."
John Kennedy"Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions."
Charles Jencks"If you're on the fence about speaking your truth or sharing your world with a greater audience, don't be. We need each other badly. -Kerby Jean"
Raymond"I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can... I might be in a financial review and be sketching because I find that I actually listen better when I sketch. Truth be told, there are probably more sketches in my books than there are written notes."
Mark Parker"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
Martin Luther King, Jr."Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
Isaac Newton"Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed."
Tom Shadyac"In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth."
Denis Villeneuve"Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?"
Marcel Duchamp"I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you."
Missy Elliott"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
Daniel Webster"The truth is, there is no link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines are incredibly important."
Timothy Simons"The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it."
Margaret Heffernan"Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth."
Ludwig Borne"Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen."
Hunter S. Thompson"Tell the children the truth."
Bob Marley"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."
Horace Mann"In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted."
Michael Musto"No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love."
Anna Held"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."
William Cullen Bryant"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
Malcolm X"Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy."
Michael J. Saylor"We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it."
Chamath Palihapitiya"I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite."
Cindy Sheehan"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."
Louis Aragon"The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth."
Irving Langmuir"Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths."
Miguel Syjuco"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
Umberto Eco"The truth is the Vintage Vitor never left."
Vitor Belfort"Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth."
George A. Smith"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism."
Henry A. Wallace"More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth."
Bob Newhart"To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him."
Saint Basil"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember."
David Mamet"Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living."
Thomas a Kempis"The truth is overrated."
Paul Westerberg"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
John F. Kennedy"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."
Blaise Pascal"After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory."
Charles Spurgeon"We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of."
Phil McGraw"There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics."
Josefina Vazquez Mota"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness."
Alfred Nobel"There's no point in saying anything but the truth."
Amy Winehouse"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."
Eminem"The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there's a story of a personal struggle."
Adrienne C. Moore"Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image's deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning."
Peter Lindbergh"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
Jean Cocteau"The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world."
Max Born"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
Carl Bernstein"You never monkey with the truth."
Ben Bradlee"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
Mahatma Gandhi"Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end."
Kris Kristofferson"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."
Samuel Butler"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation."
Stella Adler"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."
Thomas Merton"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me."
Camillo di Cavour"The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth."
Frederick Law Olmsted"To tell the truth, I'd join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn't join a band with Paul McCartney, but it's nothing personal. It's just from a musical point of view."
George Harrison"The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence."
Simon Schama"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
Richard Avedon"I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken."
Robert Kiyosaki"When truth is on your side, you don't need support."
Hrithik Roshan"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
David Hume"I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you."
Rohit Shetty"Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty."
James D. Watson"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth."
Peter Abelard"I believe that in the end the truth will conquer."
John Wycliffe"Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort."
Tariq Ramadan"Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond."
Hypatia"Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation. -Simon Baron"
Cohen"Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible."
Max Weber"Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth."
Simone de Beauvoir"It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it."
Maya Angelou"We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square."
Michelle Obama"A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others."
Robert Green Ingersoll"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth."
Bo Bennett"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Isaac Newton"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time."
Gerald R. Ford"If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth."
Logan Pearsall Smith"I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."
Sylvester Stallone"People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies."
Don Miguel Ruiz"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
Khalil Gibran"When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today."
Jacques Prevert"The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation."
Stella Adler"You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth."
Athol Fugard"I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent."
Angela Merkel"Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came."
Adlai Stevenson II"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may."
William Hazlitt"In an effort to create a culture within my classroom where students feel safe sharing the intimacies of their own silences, I have four core principles posted on the board that sits in the front of my class, which every student signs at the beginning of the year: read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, tell your truth."
Clint Smith"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."
Hannah Arendt"The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything."
Big Boi"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
Thomas Aquinas"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."
D. H. Lawrence"Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues."
Merle Dandridge"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
Michelle Obama"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."
Nikola Tesla"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. -Jean"
Luc Godard"I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state."
H. Rap Brown"He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance."
Moshe Safdie"The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty."
Abu Bakr"The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood."
Jordan Peterson"A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth."
Rudolf Steiner"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."
Charles Peguy"Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty."
Matthew Arnold"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."
Umberto Eco"The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."
Thomas Babington Macaulay"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."
Joseph Roux"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few."
George Berkeley"If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics."
Will Rogers"Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth."
Mohsen Makhmalbaf"The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy."
Ken Kesey"Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."
Mahatma Gandhi"In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth."
Xun Kuang"Whenever people ask me: 'Why didn't you get up when the bus driver asked you?' I say it felt as though Harriet Tubman's hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth's hands were pushing me down on the other shoulder. I felt inspired by these women because my teacher taught us about them in so much detail."
Claudette Colvin"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."
Susan Sontag"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."
Louis Kahn"To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source."
Debbie Ford"Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped."
Charles Stanley"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."
George Orwell"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."
Voltaire"There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth."
Louis Farrakhan"I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy."
Kelly Miller"Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline."
William Hague"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
Soren Kierkegaard"The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate."
Ken Liu"There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral."
Ida Tarbell"The truth is nobody was a Muslim until Public Enemy came out. Then, everybody was Muslim this and Muslim that. It's a bandwagon thing. Islam is a way of life... it's a religion. It's not just something you put on a record. -KRS"
One"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."
Simone Weil"I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth."
David Geffen"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."
Kurt Vonnegut"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."
David Hare"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
Tacitus"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
Katherine Mansfield"The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve."
Marcia Angell"You never find yourself until you face the truth."
Pearl Bailey"You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes."
Maimonides"I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth."
Venus Williams"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Charles Spurgeon"Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age."
Amy Tan"The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself."
Jessica Valenti"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism."
Carl Bernstein"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth."
Edward Young"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."
Richard Dawkins