Truth Quotes

Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

~ William J. Harris

An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.

~ Djayawarman Alamprabu

You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”“A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.”“You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

It is not history. But I am beginning to wonder strongly what is the nature of history. Is it only memory in decent sentences, and if so, how reliable is it? I would suggest, not very. And that therefore most truth and fact offered by these syntactical means is treacherous and unreliable. And yet I recognise that we live our lives, and even keep our sanity, by the lights of this treachery and this unreliability, just as we build our love of country on these paper worlds of misapprehension and untruth. Perhaps this is our nature, and perhaps unaccountably it is part of our glory as a creature, that we can build our best and most permanent buildings on foundations of utter dust.

~ Sebastian Barry

You govern people, you do good and bad things.If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.

~ Toba Beta

Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans -- or even Romans, the most modern among people of antiquity -- they all placed the Golden Age, the Age of Truth, the rule of Kronos or of Ra or of any other gods on earth -- the glorious beginning of the slow, downward unfurling of history, whatever name it be given -- far behind them in the past.

~ Savitri Devi

The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.

~ Timothy B. Tyson

The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.

~ W.h. Auden

Ellie: You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil.Richard: Good will triumph over evil.Ellie: Liar.

~ Joan Bauer

Belief has nothing to do with facts,especially for the unbelievable facts.

~ Toba Beta

The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.

~ Clare Francis

Deriving truth from joy may be far more easier than generating joy from the truth.

~ Toba Beta

When mortals discuss about the eternity,conclusively it will be a lifetime discussion.

~ Toba Beta

There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business, no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

~ Curtis Sittenfeld

A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

~ Robert B. Laughlin

Hoax needed to complete the premises of truth.

~ Toba Beta

I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are.

~ Dee White

Nothing exists without its opposite.

~ Chris Crutcher

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.

~ Orson Scott Card

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

~ Kingsley Amis

Even today, I've no idea what the truth is, or what I did with it.

~ Luis Buñuel

In no man's land, alien is the queen.

~ Toba Beta

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

~ William Osler

When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

~ John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Pender laughed. Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

~ David Baldacci

Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body. The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.

~ Toba Beta

Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.

~ Michael Crichton

But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom.

~ Orson Scott Card

There is no conscience in a real war.

~ Toba Beta

He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.

~ John Milton

They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth.

~ Sheri S. Tepper

Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life.

~ Eugène Carrière

The relationship between truth and reason:Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!

~ Maurice Blondel

There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties.

~ Toba Beta

May I have a few friends and many books - both true.

~ Arthur Ernest Cowley

There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth??Master of Stupidity: O Yes. That is yesterday's truth.

~ Toba Beta

Smartass Disciple: How the hell do we find the truth ?Master of Stupidity: Just seek it with hope it’ll find you.

~ Toba Beta

Smartass Disciple: Master, what are you talking about? None of us understand!Master of Stupidity: Be patient! It is not ended yet. The end justifies the means.

~ Toba Beta

Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert