Quotes about the truth

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“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men,
And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.”

“The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.”

“Exactitude is not truth.”

“No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.”

“He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”

“And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.”

“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”

“The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.”

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn”

“Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances”

“All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?”

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”

“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.”

“They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never realize how pointless and savage war truly is. You were smart enough to see through the truth. Don't ever forget it.”

“And 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”

“I am nothing, truth is everything.”

“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”

“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”

“If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

“The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”

“As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.”

“Dissonance is the truth about harmony.”

“What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.”

“A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

“I repeat with the most vehement conviction: truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it. Today is only the beginning, for it is only today that the positions have become clear: on one side, those who are guilty, who do not want the light to shine forth, on the other, those who seek justice and who will give their lives to attain it. I said it before and I repeat it now: when truth is buried underground, it grows and it builds up so much force that the day it explodes it blasts everything with it. We shall see whether we have been setting ourselves up for the most resounding of disasters, yet to come.”

“Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.”

“Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.”

“Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way.”

“Love is being honest with yourself at all times
being honest with the other person at all times
telling, listening, respecting the truth
and never pretending
Love is the source of reality”

“Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.”

“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, and beer.”

“In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.”

“Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.”

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

“We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.”

“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”

“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 absolute truth.”

“By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”

“Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.”

“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!”

“When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who Do”

“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”

“That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)”

“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”

“But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”

“The truth is, not one of is innocent. We all have sins to confess.”

“This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.”

“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”

“The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.”

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”

“What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.”

“If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?”

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

“I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.

The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!”

“If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”

“The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.”

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.”

“There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.”

“The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.”

“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.”

“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”

“A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”

“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't.”

“A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment… But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.”

“Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.”

“Truth is independent of facts always.”

“In truth, how much time do any of us really have?”

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”

“Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams — they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do — they all contain truths”

“Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.”

“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.”

“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”

“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

“There was a time in my demented youth
When somehow I suspected that the truth
About survival after death was known
To every human being: I alone
Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy
Of books and people hid the truth from me.”

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

“It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.”

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.”

“How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?”

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”

“Searching for truth is itself a big illusion because whatever we term the truth is always and everywhere. We don't have to search for it; we don't have to seek it; it always is. Now the only problem is your inability to experience life beyond what you call mind; or right now your capability to experience life only through the limited dimension that we call mind. That is the only problem.”

“Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.”

“The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us--when they do.”

“You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.”

“This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.”

“What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?”

“In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.”

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”

“Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.”

“I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth.
- Blanche Scene II”

“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;…. and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.”

“And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?”

“[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.”

“Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.”

“Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.”

“Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping.”

“And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence”