Quotes about the truth

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“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”

“Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth.”

“Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.”

“The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.”

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

“And when you say the truth you get stronger.”

“All we can do is go around telling the truth.”

“In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.”

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

“The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.”

“Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”

“To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it”

“Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”

“Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?”

“One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)”

“i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth”

“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”

“There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.”

“Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.”

“It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.”

“The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.”

“Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.”

“Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”

“Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.”

“I have always been afraid… Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am… scared to death just treading on your shadow.”

“Love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
A Brave and Startling Truth.”

“The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.”

“In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.”

“Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts by the Holy Spirit”

“The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.”

“Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.”

“… nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”

“It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that… Magnus.”

“It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.”

“The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.”

“We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.”

“The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.”

“the truth about forever is that it is happening right now”

“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.”

“I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.”

“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”

“It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines.”

“Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.”

“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”

“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”

“… politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Real power comes not from hate, but from truth.”

“Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.”

“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”

“The truth is… you think what people want you to think.”

“The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.”

“You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”

“She whispered, 'C'etait la Verite?' Was that Verity? Or perhaps she just meant, Was that the truth? Was it true? Did any of it really happen? Were the last three hours real? 'Yes,' I whispered back. 'Oui. C'etait la verite.”

“That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.”

“Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it”

“Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.”

“When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.”

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

“The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.”

“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”

“He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.”

“Because for all the changes, some things were immutable truths: friendship transcends all barriers, understanding trumps fear, and great power can always be surmounted by determination.”

“And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.”

“The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.”

“Strong relationships are not rocked by a truth that is grounded by resolute monogamy.”

“Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consisted of, really. She'd told Maddox that she'd been glad for her solitude, bu the truth was, there were times she'd been starved for touch. Any touch.”

“The Truth is in the prolouge.
Death to the romantic fool.,
the expert in solitary confinement.”

“In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.”

“The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.”

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.”

“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.”

“Not that I’ve ever feared a fight or backed down from one –(Wren)
That’s the truth. I swear he’s half beta fish. He’d fight his own reflection to prove a point. (Maggie)”

“Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.”

“The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish that he was my brother and you weren't." - Clary”

“Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren’t looking, alluring and ever out of reach.”

“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.”

“On my life, Magnus, I swear this is the truth: your father is a Norse god. Now, hurry. We're in a twenty- minute parking spot.”

“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”

“Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.”

“The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?”

“If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.”

“If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.”

“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”

“if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.”

“Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.”

“The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.”

“The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.”

“Truth is as free as the air and we all have the right to breathe as deeply of it as we wish. It cannot be held back in the palm of any one man.”

“The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.”

“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?”

“… hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”

“Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.”

“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”

“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”

“Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.”

“I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and
difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.”

“There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it.”

“Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.”