Quotes about truth
truth
In this world truth can wait; she's used to it.
truth
I don't know how much I'm going to find out. I don't know how much of the truth will be told.
truth sick interesting
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting. J. D. Salinger
truth childhood parent
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
truth done impossible
Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it. Ivy Compton-Burnett
truth reality feel-good
It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen. Ione Skye
truth saws
Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw. Jack Kerouac
truth husband thinking
my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true. Isabel Allende
truth two half
Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit. Neil Kinnock
truth science fool
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. Neil Gaiman
truth lines way
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. John Tillotson
truth lying men
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
truth men use
All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well. John Stuart Blackie
truth truth-is whole
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole. John Sterling
truth patents scales
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
truth begging-you hypocrisy
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging. Martin Luther
truth lying integrity
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
truth care nasty
I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth. Tom Cruise
truth essentials levels
Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles. Sissela Bok
truth personality existence
Existence has no personality. No question of personalities, it simply is whatsoever it is. To experience existence as it is, is to know the truth. Rajneesh
truth errors
Truth burns up error. Sojourner Truth
truth powerful black
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
truth waiting reform
I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
truth men rights
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
truth littles accounts
If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth. Socrates
truth believe crime
To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free. Michael Servetus
truth care i-care
I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true. Michael Shermer
truth-is dangerous dangerous-things
But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing. Michael Scott
truth honesty men
We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity. Theodore Roosevelt
truth whole
The whole is the false. Theodor Adorno
truth food beer
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer? Terry Pratchett
truth believe world
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. Margaret Mead
truth giving illusion
Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion. Margaret Fuller