Truth - Quotes & Sayings
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
Arthur MillerThe theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella AdlerI told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
Rodney DangerfieldTruth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
TacitusTruth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
Claude Adrien HelvetiusPeople will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy RooneyTruth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo TolstoyWhen I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
Barry WhitePeople always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.
Pep GuardiolaThe poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean CocteauEven if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma GandhiThe word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella AdlerI love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.
Martin HendersonI think the truth is black-and-white.
Nancy GraceIf you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert EinsteinWe 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 ThomasPlato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac NewtonThere is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles DickensTruth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma GandhiReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. LewisOnly fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?
Guru NanakIf you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Logan Pearsall SmithAdversity is the first path to truth.
Lord ByronFiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen KingEvery truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
AesopIt is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. JeromeWhen you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.
Don Miguel RuizThere 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 LeibnizI guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
Venus WilliamsThe truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
Wayne DyerThat which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
RumiWhen I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'
William WallaceIt's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
Kate WinsletThe 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 SchopenhauerIn a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
BuddhaAll truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur SchopenhauerI believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H. L. MenckenTruth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBy doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Peter AbelardThe truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.
Vivek WadhwaI take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.
Brittany MurphyActing is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.
Karen GillanOnly the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Mason CooleyI was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.
Glen CampbellConvictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich NietzscheTwo qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Carl von ClausewitzThere are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh BillingsPoliteness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
P. T. BarnumStop holding your truth; speak your truth. Be yourself. It's the healthiest way to be.
Tiffany HaddishWhen virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu