All Quotes

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
‐‐ Emily Dickinson

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
‐‐ Anais Nin

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
‐‐ Leo Rosten

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.
‐‐ Heather Dubrow

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
‐‐ Mary Astell

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

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
‐‐ George Berkeley

Truth is the daughter of time.
‐‐ Aulus Gellius

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
‐‐ Johannes Kepler

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Truth is the glue that holds government together.
‐‐ Gerald R. Ford

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.
‐‐ Bikram Choudhury

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
‐‐ John Churton Collins

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
‐‐ Herman Melville

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
‐‐ Claude Adrien Helvetius

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
‐‐ Ice Cube

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.
‐‐ Peter Berg

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
‐‐ Adam Duritz

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
‐‐ Nadine Gordimer

Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.
‐‐ James Hal Cone

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
‐‐ Henry St. John

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
‐‐ Albert Camus

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
‐‐ Ellis Peters

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
‐‐ Lillian Hellman

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
‐‐ Jules Renard

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.
‐‐ Ray McKinnon

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

Truth never changes. Truth always sets people free.
‐‐ Cynthia Robinson

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
‐‐ John Milton

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Truth never was indebted to a lie.
‐‐ Edward Young

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
‐‐ Theodore Parker

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
‐‐ John Updike

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
‐‐ Matthew Arnold

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
‐‐ David Hume

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Truth suffers from too much analysis.
‐‐ Frank Herbert

Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.
‐‐ Ravi Zacharias

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
‐‐ Livy

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
‐‐ Phyllis Bottome