Top 484 Truth Quotes

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Peter Matthiessen

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.

Noam Chomsky

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

Mario Monti

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

Ray LaMontagne

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

Vince Vaughn

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

Bryan Cranston

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

Richard Flanagan

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

Craig Newmark

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Simone de Beauvoir

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