Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Gauguin

I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Patrick Rothfuss

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

Lillian Hellman

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

Laurence Fishburne

We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.

P. J. O'Rourke

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

Paul Cezanne

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

Paul Cezanne

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Oscar Wilde

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?

Oscar Wilde

Truth is independent of facts always.

Tom Cruise

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.

Sissela Bok

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

Rajneesh

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.

Sojourner Truth

Truth burns up error.

Sojourner Truth

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Sojourner Truth

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.

Sojourner Truth

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.

Socrates

If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.

Jodi Picoult

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Jodi Picoult

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

John Greenleaf Whittier

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

John Greenleaf Whittier

This is truth the poet sings . . .

Johnny Depp

I know, ... To tell you the truth, I've been worshiping it from afar.

In this world truth can wait; she's used to it.

It's a lot on your shoulders. I wouldn't have it any other way, to tell you the truth.

David Baldacci

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

David Mamet

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

Jack Kerouac

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

Isabel Allende

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.