Truth Quotes

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

~ Dorothy Day

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,How much would novels gain by the exchange!How differently the world would men behold!

~ George Gordon Byron

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (1794)]

~ Edmund Burke

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

~ Jeffery Deaver

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!

~ George Orwell

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

~ Henry Miller

It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way.

~ Jon Katz

Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.

~ Patricia Briggs

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

~ Suzanne Collins

How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most.

~ Ann Brashares

I am not afraid to die, I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment.

~ Janet Fitch

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Totoo pala na kulang ang salita para sa lahat ng nararamdaman.

~ Eros S. Atalia

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

~ Juliet Marillier

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

~ John Paul Ii

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

~ Tim O'brien

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth.

~ Christina Rossetti

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

~ Julien Smith

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

~ Sarah Dessen

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

~ Robert Brault

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

~ Swami Vivekananda

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

~ Diane Setterfield

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

~ Richard Adams

All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.

~ John Green

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

~ Paul Krugman

He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.

~ Aleatha Romig

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

~ Christine Feehan

Herodotus says, Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

~ Mark Twain

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

~ Lauren Destefano

We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s the only place where we never lie. At night we don’t lie. Now if we think that our whole lives are built on lying-they are strange buildings-we should try and write as our dreams teach us; shamelessly, fearlessly, and by facing what is inside very human being-sheer violence, disgust, terror, shit, invention, poetry. In our dreams we are criminals; we kill, and we kill with a lot of enjoyment. But we are also the happiest people on earth; we make love as we never make love in life.

~ Hélène Cixous

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

~ E. Lockhart

All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.

~ David Sedaris

We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.

~ Garth Stein

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

~ George Orwell

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

~ Malcolm X

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

~ Dana Reinhardt

The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth.

~ Blue Balliett