Truth Quotes - page 4

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. (Flannery O’Connor)
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. View quote
Daniel Webster
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. View quote
Harry S. Truman
The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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. View quote
Umberto Eco
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. View quote
George Eliot
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. View quote
George Carlin
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. View quote
Theodor Adorno
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. View quote
Susan Sontag
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Perhaps The truth depends on a walk around a lake. (Wallace Stevens)
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. View quote
Arthur Balfour
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. View quote
William Penn
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. View quote
E. O. Wilson
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth. View quote
Albert Finney
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. View quote
George Canning
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? (Lily Tomlin)
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. View quote
George Santayana
I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth. View quote
Brian Aldiss
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. View quote
Edith Sitwell
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. View quote
Edith Sitwell