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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
— Quentin Tarantino
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
— Frank Herbert
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
— Herman Melville
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
— Pablo Picasso
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
— Isaac Newton
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
— Ansel Adams
Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
— Lucy Stone
One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
— Aesop
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
— Marie Curie
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
— Marcel Proust
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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.
— Abraham Lincoln
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
— Jean Rostand
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty. 
— Tacitus
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow. 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
— George Gissing
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
— Charles Dickens
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
— Avigdor Lieberman
Truth is a great flirt.
— Franz Liszt
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
— Daniel Webster
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
— Aldous Huxley
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
— Chief Joseph
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
— Marilyn Manson
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
— Johannes Kepler
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
— Pablo Picasso
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
— Bill Gates
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
— Aristotle
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
— Douglas Adams
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
— Emile Zola
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
— Henry Rollins
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
— James A. Garfield
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
— Niels Bohr
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
— Patrick Henry
The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence. 
— Rabindranath Tagore
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
— Thomas Jefferson
The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
— Marilyn Monroe
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
— Annie Leibovitz
The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.
— Geoff Johns
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
— Penelope Cruz
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
— Peter Abelard
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
— Brian Eno
Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
— Helene Deutsch
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
— Jane Austen
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
— Stephen Levine
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
— Thomas a Kempis
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
— Angelina Jolie
I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
— Venus Williams
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
— Laurence J. Peter
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
— Harry S Truman
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
— Khalil Gibran
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
— Horatio Nelson
We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
— Phil McGraw
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
— Mother Jones
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
— Theodor Adorno
Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.
— Luis Gutierrez
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
— Ken Kesey
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
— Aristotle
The color of truth is gray.
— Andre Gide
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
— Larry Gelbart
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
— Michael Jackson
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
— Peter Abelard
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
— John Keats
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
— William Osler
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
— Henrik Ibsen
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
— Otto von Bismarck
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
— Barbara Kingsolver
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
— Anne Hutchinson
We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
— Helen Thomas
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
— Don Miguel Ruiz
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
— H. L. Mencken
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
— Walter Scott
In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.
— Don Miguel Ruiz
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
— Lillian Hellman
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
— Audre Lorde
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
— Bette Davis
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
— Henrik Ibsen
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.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
— George Orwell
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.
— River Phoenix
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.
— Alfred Day Hershey
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
— Stephen Fry
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
— Albert Einstein
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
— Antisthenes
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
— Lao Tzu
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
— Shana Alexander
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
— William C. Bryant
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
— Steven Biko
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
— Frank A. Clark
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
— Elie Wiesel
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
— Alan Cohen
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
— D. H. Lawrence
When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally 'less fortunate' only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive.
— Ben Shapiro
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
— George Berkeley
When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.
— Amber Frey
The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself. 
— Jessica Valenti
I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
— Albert Schweitzer
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
— William Bernbach
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well.
— Sue Monk Kidd
You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down I don't speak the truth to show disrespect. 
— Hope Solo
Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.
— M.I.A.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
— William Blake
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
— Umberto Eco
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
— Arthur Rubinstein
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
— Alfred Adler
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
— Jacques Prevert
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
— June Jordan
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
— Billy Wilder
If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
— Nikki Giovanni
To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
— Bill Maher
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
— Theodore Parker
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
— Henry St. John
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
— James Clavell
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
— Richard Rorty
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
— John Locke
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
— Terry Eagleton
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
— Thomas Hobbes
People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.
— Howard E. Wasdin
The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.
— Marcia Angell
Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.
— Mark Frost
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
— Albert Camus
You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
— Kanye West
Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.
— Casey Neistat
I believe in people. Human beings, deep down, are essentially good. Any jury can filter through whatever bull might be thrown their way and use common sense to get to the truth of a case. Juries make the right decisions, almost unfailingly, because people know right from wrong.
— Kimberly Guilfoyle
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
— Josh Billings
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
— Evelyn Waugh
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
— Graham Greene
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
— Alexander Pope
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
— Francis Bacon
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
— Adrienne Rich
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
— Alanis Morissette
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
— Louisa May Alcott
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
— Walter Cronkite
Justice is the truth in action.
— Joseph Joubert
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
— Giordano Bruno
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty. 
— Madame de Stael
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
— Mark Twain
Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.
— Dennis Miller
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
— William Butler Yeats
Truth is immortal error is mortal. 
— Mary Baker Eddy
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
— Lord Byron
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
— Michel Foucault
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
— Jeremy Taylor
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
— Rabindranath Tagore
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
— John le Carre
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
— Soren Kierkegaard
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
— William Butler Yeats
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
— Charley Reese
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
— Bayard Rustin
I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.
— Brad Pitt
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
— Herbert Simon
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
— George Canning
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
— Joan of Arc
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king truth comes riding on a donkey symbolic actions - even parading without a permit! 
— David Kirk
I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
— Robert De Niro
Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
— Protagoras
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
— Theodor Adorno
Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
— Michael Ondaatje
So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.
— Thomas Hooker
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
— Alfred Russel Wallace
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
— Alfred Russel Wallace
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
— Martha Beck
Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
— Camillo di Cavour
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
— John Grierson
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
— June Jordan
If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
— Harri Holkeri
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
— B. C. Forbes
Exactitude is not truth.
— Henri Matisse
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
— Giambattista Vico
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
— Vaclav Havel
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
— Stephen Leacock
The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
— Carly Fiorina
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
— Anne Sullivan
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
— William Butler Yeats
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
— John Bradshaw
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
— William James
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. 
— Gottfried Leibniz
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
— Willa Cather
Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.
— Vinoba Bhave
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
— James Otis
Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.
— Dick Thornburgh
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
— Horace Mann
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
— Jim Morrison
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
— William Blake
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
— Igor Stravinsky
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
— Edmond Halley
Truth is a tendency.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. 
— William Butler Yeats
The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's the thing about the truth. That's the thing about real. It doesn't change and it doesn't have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it's still real. It's still the truth.
— DMX
When you buy into the cultural idea of what's acceptable and unacceptable, you reinforce negative stereotypes and prejudices. That wouldn't work for me. I don't love to give advice to anyone, because we all have to make our own choices, but I'd want to live my life in truth.
— Kerry Washington
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
— Walter Benjamin
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
— Winston Churchill
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
— Peter Matthiessen
Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. 
— Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
— Abraham Maslow
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
— Henry David Thoreau
Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
— NeNe Leakes
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
— John Ruskin
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
— J. K. Rowling
I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
— Ellen DeGeneres
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.
— Gore Vidal
The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.
— Klaus Kinski
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
— Charles Bradlaugh
I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
— Uma Thurman
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
— Anais Nin
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
— Denis Waitley
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
— Stephen Colbert
I guess, to tell you the truth, I've never had much of a desire to grow facial hair. I think I've managed to play quarterback just fine without a mustache.
— Peyton Manning
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
— J. R. R. Tolkien
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
— Maria Semple
As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.
— Pamela Meyer
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
— John F. Kennedy
The truth is lived, not taught.
— Hermann Hesse
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. 
— Pindar
Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.
— Tariq Ramadan
Sincerity is moral truth.
— George Henry Lewes
I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.
— Stanley Kramer
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.
— Mercy Otis Warren
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
— Plato
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
— Lewis Carroll
There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.
— Richie Sambora
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
— James Madison
How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.
— James Beattie
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
— Hussein of Jordan
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
— H. P. Lovecraft
Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.
— Thom Yorke
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
— Paul Cezanne
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
— Henrik Ibsen
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
— Charles Stanley
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
— Ramakrishna
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.
— Simon Schama
There's no point in saying anything but the truth.
— Amy Winehouse
I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
— Jackie Robinson
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
— Thomas Merton
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.
— Jeanne Calment
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
— Abraham Lincoln
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Truth exists only lies are invented. 
— Georges Braque
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
— Herodotus
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
— Ellis Peters
I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.
— Raoul Peck
Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
— Natalie Goldberg
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
— A. Philip Randolph
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
— Hans Eysenck
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
— Mel Brooks
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
— Soren Kierkegaard
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
— Saint Basil
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
— Said Nursi
I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say that. The truth is that the Constitution is not one that morphs. It's an enduring Constitution, not a changing Constitution. That is what I've meant when I've said that the Constitution is dead.
— Antonin Scalia
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
— Edward Albee
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
— John Cleese
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
— James Callaghan
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
— Henrik Ibsen
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
— Aldous Huxley
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
— George Orwell
Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.
— Roy Orbison
Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
— Swami Sivananda
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
— Kenneth L. Pike
Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.
— Arthur C. Nielsen
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
— Rabindranath Tagore
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
— Novalis
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
— James Allen
Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
— William Osler
I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.
— Johnny Depp
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
— Aristotle
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
— Bill Copeland
When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
— Eartha Kitt
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
— Anatole France
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
— Andy Rooney
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
— George Bernard Shaw
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
— Whitney Houston
Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.
— Justin Timberlake
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
— Sam Rayburn
Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
— William Howard Taft
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
— Phaedrus
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
— Livy
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'
— Roger Rosenblatt
Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.
— Joyce Meyer
Expressing truth is hard work.
— Timothy Noah
I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.
— Cindy Sheehan
I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The obvious truth is these impractical, politically motivated programs have irreparably damaged the fabric of our black society and community.
— Allen West
The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to get to know you as quickly as possible, because you're now taking the place of somebody that they love dearly, or somebody that they hate sincerely, and so they need to know who you are.
— Trevor Noah
The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.
— Thomas S. Monson
If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.
— Scott Adams
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
— Samuel Goldwyn
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
— Lillian Hellman
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
— J. Edgar Hoover
Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. 
— Tryon Edwards
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
— Walter Lippmann
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
— Susan Sontag
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
— Alfred Adler
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
— Arthur H. Compton
You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. 
— Kenny Loggins
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
— Barry White
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
— Paddy Ashdown
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.
— Henry James Sumner Maine