Truth Quotes (892 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Kenneth L. Pike
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author John Ruskin
„It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.“
― John Ruskin ―
Picture of quotation author Alan Keyes
„It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.“
― Alan Keyes ―
Picture of quotation author Jonathan Frid
„To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.“
― Jonathan Frid ―
Picture of quotation author Giordano Bruno
„The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied with anything finite.“
― Giordano Bruno ―
Picture of quotation author Martin Cruz Smith
„Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization as we know it. We will find him, lock him up, and throw away the key. But give the man credit; for a week the truth was laid bare.“
Picture of quotation author Judi Dench
„People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.“
― Judi Dench ―
Picture of quotation author Thomas Huxley
„Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.“
― Thomas Huxley ―
Picture of quotation author Aesop
„A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.“
― Aesop ―
Picture of quotation author Wendell Berry
„We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.“
― Wendell Berry ―
Picture of quotation author Thomas Jefferson
„Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.“
Picture of quotation author Marianne Faithfull
„I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.“
Picture of quotation author Michel de Montaigne
„I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.“
Picture of quotation author Gary Hamel
„When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.“
― Gary Hamel ―
Picture of quotation author Scott Bakula
„You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.“
― Scott Bakula ―
Picture of quotation author Seamus Heaney
„In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.“
― Seamus Heaney ―
Picture of quotation author Giacomo Casanova
„I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.“
Picture of quotation author Jack White
„A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.“
― Jack White ―
Picture of quotation author Goldie Hawn
„The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.“
― Goldie Hawn ―
Picture of quotation author Phil McGraw
„The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.“
― Phil McGraw ―

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