Truth

The truth is not what you’re told; it’s what you discover.
Author: Joseph CampbellTopics: Famous, Positive, Truth
To be an artist is to be constantly in search of truth.
Author: May SartonTopics: artist, Famous, Truth
The strength of a people lies in their unity, not in their division.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Strength, Truth

I’m not just painting for painting’s sake. I want to be truthful.
Author: Sylvester StalloneTopics: Famous, Positive, Truth
Don’t be afraid to speak your truth, even if your voice shakes.
Author: Manisha KoiralaTopics: Famous, Truth
I prefer to be a great team not only on paper but also on the pitch. The pitch is the truth. The pitch speaks.
Author: Antonio ConteTopics: Famous, Truth

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Author: Norman SchwarzkopfTopics: Famous, Positive, Truth

In the end, the truth will have its day.
Author: William Jennings BryanTopics: Famous, Positive, Truth
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
Author: William Jennings BryanTopics: Famous, Truth
Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.
Author: Willie NelsonTopics: Famous, Life, Truth

The truth never gets in the way of a good story.
Author: Walter WinchellTopics: Famous, Positive, Truth
The truth doesn’t change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That’s the thing about the truth. That’s the thing about real. It doesn’t change and it doesn’t have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it’s still real. It’s still the truth.
Author: DMXTopics: Change, Famous, Truth

I believe that one of the most important things a writer can do is to tell the truth.
Author: Henry MillerTopics: Believes, Famous, Truth

Do not say, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.
Author: Khalil GibranTopics: Famous, Positive, Truth
In the theatre, we are all equals, sharing a moment of truth.
Author: David HareTopics: Famous, Truth
No matter how bad the truth is, it doesn’t tear you apart inside like dishonesty.
Author: Teri GarrTopics: Famous, Truth
I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.
Author: RihannaTopics: Famous, Feelings, Truth
Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
Author: Edgar DegasTopics: Famous, Truth
Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
Author: Vladimir LeninTopics: Famous, Truth

I’m just a girl who likes to sing about the truth.
Author: Amy WinehouseTopics: Famous, Positive, Truth
I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be.
Author: Rosa ParksTopics: Famous, Truth
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
Author: Linus PaulingTopics: Famous, Life, Truth
There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.
Author: Don HenleyTopics: Famous, Truth
If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance … These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth … In such manner did I dream of the truth.
Author: Johannes KeplerTopics: Dream, Famous, Truth
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
Author: Johannes KeplerTopics: Famous, Truth
A new 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.
Author: Max PlanckTopics: Famous, Scientific, Truth
It’s not easy having a good marriage – but I don’t want easy. Easy doesn’t make you grow. Easy doesn’t make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That’s my definition of true love.
Author: MadonnaTopics: Famous, Trust, Truth
Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I’d rather read a book.
Author: MadonnaTopics: Famous, Feelings, Truth

Truth is a thing that can be known and understood, but not easily explained.
Author: Niels BohrTopics: Famous, Positive, Truth

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
Author: Niels BohrTopics: Famous, Great, Truth

To find out the truth, you must not be afraid to be wrong.
Author: Nikola TeslaTopics: Famous, Positive, Truth
I want you all to stand like the Muslims who stood with La ilaaha ilalla for Truth and Right.
Author: Imran KhanTopics: Famous, Right, Truth

I think every musician is searching for something. They’re searching for a connection, for truth.
Author: StingTopics: Famous, Musicians, Truth
The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well… the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.
Author: Carlos SlimTopics: Famous, Feelings, Truth

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Author: Winston ChurchillTopics: Famous, Positive, Truth

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Author: Winston ChurchillTopics: Famous, Life, Truth, World
The truth is that most people buy a home because it uniquely reflects their personality and their values.
Author: Donald John TrumpTopics: Famous, Truth, values
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Author: Galileo GalileiTopics: Discovered, Famous, Truth
Time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is, further and further to discover truth.
Author: Charles BabbageTopics: Time, Truth
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
Author: Umberto EcoTopics: Learning, Truth
I am a philosopher, not a king. But the truth is generally seen and rarely heard.
Author: Umberto EcoTopics: King, Truth

People don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
Author: Upton SinclairTopics: Reality, Truth
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
Author: O'Shea Jackson, Jr.Topics: Famous, Hide, Meaningful, Run, Truth, Ultimate
Let truth be told – women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there’s life there’s hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the “betrayed” as some amiable theorists would have us believe
Author: Thomas HardyTopics: Famous, Feelings, Hope, Interested, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Truth
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed
Author: Thomas HardyTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Offense, Truth
The truth is, we all the same. On different teams, but it’s all a game.
Author: J. ColeTopics: Different, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Reality, Same, Teams, Truth
Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared
Author: Thomas FullerTopics: Famous, Feared, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, respected, Truth
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie
Author: Thomas E. MannTopics: Famous, Feelings, Harmful, Lie, Life, Meaningful, Truth
He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Christian, Faith, Famous, Quality, Truth
We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Truth
Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Famous, Guilty, Peace, Sacrifice, Truth
It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism
Author: Thomas de QuinceyTopics: Duty, Famous, Feelings, Impressiveness, Lowest, Meaningful, Object, Rank, Self-Sacrifice, Truth
The truth is not delicate; it will stand up to vigorous testing
Author: Thomas CampbellTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Truth
Big Truth, once understood and assimilated, always modifies your intent, and invariably leads to personal change
Author: Thomas CampbellTopics: Famous, Feelings, Leads, Life, Meaningful, Truth, Understood
Truth ever lovely – since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man
Author: Thomas CampbellTopics: Famous, Feelings, Friend, Life, Love, Meaningful, Truth

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Facts, Famous, Fiction, Human experience, Ignored, Illumination, Real, Reality, Truth
Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Death, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Truth
Truth is mighty and will prevail.
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Prevail, Truth
One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Famous, Insecurity, Journey, Learning, Overcoming, Truth

You can’t do this to me. All the things you said are a mask, it hides the truth and rips me apart.
Author: J-HopeTopics: Falsehoods, Famous, Mask, Things, Truth
The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old. That which is new is the intelligence which discerns and the humanity which remedies them
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Examined, Famous, Feelings, History, Humanity, Imagine, Intelligence, Life, Meaningful, Reason, Truth
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad criticsf
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Laid, Life, Meaningful, Truth
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Imaginative, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Poetry, Truth, Understanding
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Alone, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Object, Truth
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Goodness, Life, Meaningful, Truth

Great stories resonate because they tap into universal truths; that’s the power of compelling characters
Author: A. J. BuckleyTopics: Character, Power, Power of music, Power of nature, Stories, Truth, Universal expression, Universal Impact
There’s an art to finding the truth in fiction, and that’s the actor’s ultimate quest.
Author: A. J. BuckleyTopics: Actors, Questioning, Quests, Truth
The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.
Author: A. E. WaiteTopics: Leadership Qualities, Leads, Reality, Realization, Realizing, Sensations, Sense, Sense of admiration, Truth
In a sense, there’s a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
Author: A. E. vanTopics: Gravity, Great, Read, Readers, Reading, Sense, Sense of Achievement, Sense of aspiration, Sense of belonging, Truth
What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception
Author: Tana FrenchTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Remember, Truth
If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections – if he has any – against faith. Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Divine, Faith, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Revelation, Truth
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Ridicule, Scientific, Truth
Again, it is self-evident that truth exists. For truth exists if anything at all is true, and if anyone denies that truth exists, he concedes that it is true that it does not exist, since if truth does not exist it is then true that it does not exist
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Self-evident, Truth