A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Votes: 6
Charles SpurgeonTruth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. Votes: 6
Elvis PresleyWhen truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. Votes: 4
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynA faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. Votes: 4
Arthur C. ClarkeTruth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. Votes: 4
Henri Frederic AmielTruth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so. Votes: 4
Mark TwainTruth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. Votes: 2
John HowardThe truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise. Votes: 2
Vivek WadhwaTruth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. Votes: 2
Bob MarleyTruth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Votes: 2
Isaac NewtonThe truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. Votes: 5 Sarah Bernhardt
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. Votes: 6 Shunryu Suzuki
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life. Votes: 4 Ralph Waldo Emerson
On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny. Votes: 1 David Hyde Pierce
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. Votes: 2 Max Frisch
The wine world is so big. Yes, there are styles of wines I don't like. Orange wine, natural wines and low-alcohol wines. Truth is on my side, and history will prove I am right. Votes: 1 Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Dear God, help us to be a living example of being Christ-centered. Purify the areas in our lives where we allowed the world and enemy to gain access. Please direct us into authentic truth so that all may see You in us. Votes: 3 Dana Arcuri
The beauty of truth is in its simplicity. Votes: 3 Debasish Mridha M.D.
Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things. Votes: 1 Bernard Sahlins
Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again. Votes: 3 Ravi Zacharias
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. Votes: 1 Chanakya
Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth. Votes: 3 Deepak Chopra
I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people. Votes: 3 Ruby Wax
We seek the truth and will endure the consequences. Votes: 2 Charles Seymour
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. Votes: 3 William Penn
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. Votes: 3 Mahatma Gandhi
All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind. Votes: 3 Jonathan Edwards
I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps. Votes: 4 Jane Fonda
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. Votes: 3 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Love invites the Holy Ghost to be present to confirm truth. And the joy of learning divine truths creates love in the hearts of people who shared the experience of learning. Votes: 4 Henry B. Eyring
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them. Votes: 2 Alice Hoffman
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. Votes: 4 Paul de Man
I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be. Votes: 1 Russell Means
I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be. Votes: 1 Russell Means
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. Votes: 1 Jean-Claude Van Damme
Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep. Votes: 4 Wes Craven
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself. Votes: 4 William Allen White
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false. Votes: 2 F. H. Bradley
I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context. Votes: 4 Gordon B. Hinckley
On more practical level, sometimes joyfulness could be more valuable than fighting for truth. Votes: 3 Toba Beta
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy. Votes: 5 Joseph Fiennes
The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows. Votes: 3 Shuler Hensley
Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation. Votes: 3 Jessy Schram
When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy. Votes: 3 Errol Morris
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. Votes: 4 Edmond de Goncourt
The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands. Votes: 4 Charles Simmons
Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life. Votes: 1 Kirk Cameron
According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth. Votes: 2 Stephen Baldwin
Long before there was ever a King James Version of our Bible, there was a gospel truth...and long before doctrines and denominations, the preeminence of the gospel was already ripe to harvest. Before man had ever thought about creating symbols to represent spiritual things...there was a gospel. Votes: 5 Chandel L. White
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. Votes: 2 Rabindranath Tagore
Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to. Votes: 1 Grace Slick
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. Votes: 5 Stephen Leacock
If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news. Votes: 3 Jennifer Morrison
The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it. Votes: 1 Conor McGregor
I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better. Votes: 5 Lou Doillon
How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life? Votes: 1 Foster Friess
The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies. Votes: 5 Tom Robbins
There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means. Votes: 3 David Levithan
There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface. Votes: 5 Michael C. Hall
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth Votes: 5 Leo Tolstoy
That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend. Votes: 2 Minna Antrim
To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future. Votes: 3 Daisaku Ikeda
When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness. Votes: 4 Walter Isaacson
All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about. Votes: 3 Nigel Kneale
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. Votes: 3 Liu Xiaobo
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. Votes: 1 Victor Borge
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. Votes: 2 Muhammad Ali
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older. Votes: 2 Michel de Montaigne
Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry such a happy mask? It becomes sad when people understand that they can lead a better life as long as they bow their heads, ignoring the truth. Votes: 3 Lionel Suggs
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. Votes: 1 Joseph Conrad
Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth. Votes: 5 Al Gore
Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth. Votes: 4 Inge Morath
More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another. Votes: 2 Henry Rollins
I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth. Votes: 1 Nicholas Lea
I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder. Votes: 3 Jussie Smollett
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth. Votes: 5 Francis Parker Yockey
And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are. Votes: 4 Plato
If a man has to ask for your trust, it's a sure sign that you should not give it. Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands. Trust is knowing a man's character, knowing truth, and relying on that character and truth even when the odds seem against you. Votes: 3 Anne Elisabeth Stengl
Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories. Votes: 3 Kimberly Willis Holt
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb. Votes: 2 D.B.C. Pierre
It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die. Votes: 3 Melina Marchetta
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. Votes: 1 Shinichi Suzuki
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do. Votes: 1 Bear Grylls
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. Votes: 1 F. Sionil Jose
Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth. Votes: 4 John Ortberg
The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear. Votes: 3 Liberty Ross
Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas. Votes: 1 Chris Crutcher
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Votes: 1 C. S. Lewis
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. Votes: 1 Denis Diderot
Every Republican is on record as saying Obamacare is unacceptable, intolerable, and they're gonna do everything they could to keep it from happening. But, at the moment of truth, they're not. Votes: 6 Rush Limbaugh
You cannot know God until you've stopped telling yourself that you already know God. You cannot hear God until you stop thinking that you've already heard God. I cannot tell you My Truth until you stop telling Me yours. Votes: 3 Neale Donald Walsch
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. Votes: 2 Charles Darwin
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence. Votes: 1 Apollonius of Tyana
When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth. Votes: 2 David Sanborn
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? Votes: 2 Oscar Wilde
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. Votes: 3 George Orwell
Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them. Votes: 3 John George Nicolay
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. Votes: 1 Philip Guedalla
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. Votes: 5 Henry Ward Beecher
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error. Votes: 4 Alvin Toffler
Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it. Votes: 1 Yolanda Adams
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. Votes: 4 Phil McGraw
How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life? Votes: 1 Foster Friess
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Votes: 1 Marcus Aurelius
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. Votes: 1 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. Votes: 3 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. Votes: 5 Johann Lamont
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. Votes: 3 Laura Riding
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. Votes: 5 Niels Bohr
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. Votes: 3 Remy de Gourmont
That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality. Votes: 3 Ray Dalio
When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth. Votes: 4 John Yarmuth
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. Votes: 2 Ramakrishna
You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. Votes: 3 Richard P. Feynman
Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship. Votes: 2 Pope Francis
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under. Votes: 5 Holly Near
Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth. Votes: 4 Marianne Williamson
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth. Votes: 1 Helene Deutsch
Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth. Votes: 3 Robert B. Laughlin
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Votes: 3 Buddha
A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation. Votes: 1 Donald Tusk
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. Votes: 6 Shana Alexander
To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth. Votes: 4 Nawal El Saadawi
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. Votes: 4 Mel Brooks
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Votes: 2 Max Planck
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. Votes: 5 Blaise Pascal
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. Votes: 3 Lewis Mumford
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. Votes: 3 John Charles Polanyi
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle. Votes: 3 Henry Ward Beecher
Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort. Votes: 6 George Polya
Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory? Votes: 3 Jiddu Krishnamurti
You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth. Votes: 3 Michael Steinhardt
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. Votes: 8 Walter Cronkite
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state. Votes: 1 H. Rap Brown
I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing. Votes: 3 Ziggy Marley
The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to. Votes: 5 George Clooney
It does not require many words to speak the truth. Votes: 5 Chief Joseph
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. Votes: 4 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. Votes: 4 Philip James Bailey
...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. Votes: 3 Sonia Sanchez
Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths. Votes: 1 LZ Granderson
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. Votes: 3 Anne Lamott
Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn't allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right. Votes: 4 Warsan Shire
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Votes: 1 Adlai E. Stevenson
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. Votes: 1 Elmer Davis
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. Votes: 3 Shakira
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me. Votes: 1 Joe Biden
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. Votes: 7 Dorothy L. Sayers
The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth. Votes: 1 Edward St Aubyn
With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them. Votes: 3 Ray McKinnon
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in. Votes: 1 Douglas Rushkoff
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. Votes: 2 Georg Brandes
Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth. Votes: 2 Robert B. Laughlin
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth. Votes: 3 Samuel P. Huntington
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Votes: 9 George Orwell
Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side. Votes: 4 Max Lucado
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. Votes: 8 Polykarp Kusch
Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences. Votes: 3 Zainab Salbi
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. Votes: 3 James Russell Lowell
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. Votes: 3 Marco Tempest
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. Votes: 3 John Locke
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. Votes: 5 Shakuntala Devi
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. Votes: 4 Kelly Miller
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. Votes: 4 Maya Angelou
Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. Votes: 3 Geraldine Jewsbury
I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government. Votes: 2 George W. Romney
If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth. Votes: 4 Corbin Bernsen
There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. Votes: 10 Frank Ocean
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. Votes: 3 Dietrich Bonhoeffer
As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. Votes: 9 Adolf Hitler
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest. Votes: 3 Randy Pausch
There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth. Votes: 3 Alice Cary
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. Votes: 8 John Locke
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. Votes: 3 William Shenstone
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. Votes: 8 Franz Kafka
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.. think of it, always. Votes: 6 Mahatma Gandhi
In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty. Votes: 4 William Shakespeare
The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility. Votes: 3 Salva Kiir Mayardit
I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows. Votes: 3 Brian Greene
Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth. Votes: 3 Ezra Taft Benson
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. Votes: 6 Robert Anton Wilson
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. Votes: 2 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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. Votes: 8 Joyce Meyer
I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia. Votes: 3 Megan Smith
Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it. Votes: 4 Iyanla Vanzant
Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths. Votes: 1 LZ Granderson
Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way. Votes: 3 Shakti Gawain
If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z. Votes: 4 Talib Kweli
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. Votes: 2 Denis Waitley
I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be. Votes: 1 Russell Means
As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit. Votes: 1 Monica Johnson
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Votes: 1 Buddha
When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth. Votes: 2 Ray Blanton
Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship. Votes: 3 Pope Francis
Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing. Votes: 3 Alison Krauss
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Votes: 1 Albert Einstein
The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through the angel Gabriel, had the power they did because they indicated new truths, new directions for followers. Votes: 1 Julian Baggini
I think that weird rumor or idea in Hollywood that people don't want to see female-driven movies couldn't be further from the truth. Women buy tickets to movies. Votes: 1 Michelle Monaghan
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. Votes: 1 Barbara Kingsolver
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. Votes: 1 Alexander Pope
The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others. Votes: 4 Dalai Lama
Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow. Votes: 3 Dorothy L. Sayers
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. Votes: 1 Edgar Allan Poe
All views can't be true because all views are opposite; this is the logical aspect. For example, Islam says we are good in nature; Christianity says we are born in sin. Islam says God is a man; Christianity says He is more than a man, He is God. All truths can't be the same. Votes: 1 Norman Geisler
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. Votes: 2 Muhammad Ali
The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change. Votes: 3 Andreas Schleicher
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon. Votes: 3 Timothy Keller
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. Votes: 1 Bill Cosby
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis. Votes: 3 Francois Viete
There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time. Votes: 1 Jef I. Richards
Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship. Votes: 1 Pope Francis
The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life. Votes: 1 Ernie Hudson
To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process. Votes: 1 Julia Leigh
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. Votes: 1 Anatole France
Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light. Votes: 4 Surya Das
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Votes: 1 Mark Twain
The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body. Votes: 1 Twyla Tharp
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. Votes: 1 Friedrich Nietzsche
All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth. Votes: 2 Pat Buckley
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. Votes: 6 Elizabeth Goudge
Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after. Votes: 3 Richard Flanagan
This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head. Votes: 1 John Nelson Darby
There is no growth without risk. There is always something to be gained from any experience. It is up to us to interpret our truth of self. Votes: 3 Truth Devour
So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police. Votes: 1 Tom Lantos
What self-respecting teenage kid growing up in the U.S. hasn't played Truth or Dare? Before cell phones, we kids spent a lot of time in the same place and actually had to come up with our own entertainment. Truth or Dare was the game of choice to break the ice between the boys and the girls. Votes: 1 Catherine Bybee
We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. Votes: 1 Michelle Obama
[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way... Votes: 3 Adolf Hitler
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state. Votes: 1 H. Rap Brown
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. Votes: 1 John Churton Collins
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. Votes: 1 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. Votes: 1 Isaac Newton
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. Votes: 2 Charles Stanley
I think people who don't work don't really have interesting and meaningful lives. More than anything, it hurts them. When you're born rich, people just associate you with what you've been given, but the truth is every individual feels better when you create something on your own. Everyone takes pride in the work they do. Votes: 1 Jamie Johnson
A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion. Votes: 3 David Brewster
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. Votes: 3 Georg C. Lichtenberg
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. Votes: 3 Andre Gide
Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors. Votes: 3 Hunter S. Thompson
The lucky ones are those who take every opportunity and turn every life experience onto truth seeking adventure. They end up full filled with deeper dimensions of pleasure and spirit satisfaction.~Inspired by: Rania Rageh~ Votes: 3 Sameh Elsayed
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. Votes: 2 Chanakya
We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward. Votes: 3 Robert Kiyosaki
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. Votes: 4 James E. Faust
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. Votes: 3 Adrian Rogers
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Votes: 1 Thomas Jefferson
I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares? Votes: 4 George Lois
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Votes: 2 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the truth with no fear or intimidation is Bravity and being free from falsehood is Purity! Votes: 3 Israelmore Ayivor
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. Votes: 1 Henri Frederic Amiel
We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. Votes: 4 Richard P. Feynman
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. Votes: 3 Imelda Marcos
The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth. Votes: 1 Hilary Mantel
I don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing. Votes: 1 George Clooney
The truth is, I don't really have a type of girl. Votes: 1 Thomas McDonell
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. Votes: 4 Shakira
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research. Votes: 7 Chauncey Wright
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. Votes: 1 Werner Herzog
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward. Votes: 2 Candice Millard
A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. Votes: 3 Okakura Kakuzo
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. Votes: 1 Felicity Huffman
The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life. Votes: 8 Ernie Hudson
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. Votes: 3 Quentin Crisp
The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others. Votes: 3 Dalai Lama
We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time. Votes: 4 Chuck Klosterman
...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is. Votes: 3 Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. Votes: 4 Alfred North Whitehead
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. Votes: 1 Billy Wilder
In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth. Votes: 1 Iyanla Vanzant
The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth. Votes: 2 Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship. Votes: 2 Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth. Votes: 3 Elissa Schappell
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. Votes: 2 Steve Bisley