Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer.

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

When I was interviewing Hillary Clinton, I knew when I'd ask her something that she wasn't going to give me the complete truth because she would break eye contact with me.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

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.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

And 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.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

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.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

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.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Tell the children the truth.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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.

Facts are stubborn things.

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.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

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.

The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

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.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

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.