Quotes about truth
truth honesty punishment
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. Fyodor Dostoevsky
truth lying deceiving-others
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
truth dark reality
Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded. Christian Bale
truth lying answers
If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore Chris Hillman
truth intelligent political
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. George Orwell
truth honesty men
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. George R. R. Martin
truth people taste
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
truth honor intuition
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. Jean Cocteau
truth stupid-people tools
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. George Carlin
truth needs reason
The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.... Frederick Carl Frieseke
truth acceptance resistance
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance. Frederick Douglass
truth atheism literature
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth. Flannery O'Connor
truth-is distortion used
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
truth-is taxi drivers
I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi. Ferran Adria
truth materialism vulgar
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. Henri Frederic Amiel
truth anger empathy
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
truth needs said
Not everything that's true needs to be said. Cassandra Clare
truth flavour rough
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. George Eliot
truth literature easy
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
truth disposition colour
The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.
truth half dull
It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.
truth men may
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. Geoffrey Chaucer
truth-is said sigh
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. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
truth essentials problem
The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant. Frank Knight
truth men enough
Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.
truth errors truth-is
Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
truth lateness lessons
When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.
truth
All truths are not to be told. George Herbert
truth sun submit
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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 long answers
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth? Friedrich Nietzsche
truth mountain vain
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
truth simple mind-love
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.