Truth Quotes

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.

~ John Irving

A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.

~ Paulo Coelho

Nunca habría sido capaz de decírselo, pero Owen me inspiraba. Las mentiras piadosas que yo decía a diario, las cosas que me guardaba, cada vez que no era sincera del todo... ahora me daba cuenta de eso. También era consciente de lo bien que me sentía al ser capaz de decirle a alguien lo que pensaba de veras. Aunque solo fuera sobre música.

~ Sarah Dessen

We losers don't fear death. For us it's the end of a lifelong losing spell.

~ Dakota Dawn

... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...

~ José Saramago

Cressida: My lord, will you be true?Troilus: Who, I? Alas, it is my vice, my fault:Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion,I with great truth catch mere simplicity;Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.Fear not my truth: the moral of my witIs plain and true; there's all the reach of it.

~ William Shakespeare

The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth.

~ Nema Al-Araby

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

~ Michael Eric Dyson

When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea of those pretended goods that a future state has in reserve for him, let him be solaced, let him be succoured; or, at least, let him be permitted to enjoy the fruit of his labour; let not his substance be ravaged from him by cruel imposts; let him not be discouraged from work, by finding all his labour inadequate to support his existence, let him not be driven into that idleness that will surely lead him on to crime: let him consider his present existence, without carrying his views to that which may attend him after his death: let his industry be excited; let his talents be rewarded; let him be rendered active, laborious, beneficent, and virtuous, in the world he inhabits; let it be shown to him that his actions are capable of having an influence over his fellow men, but not on those imaginary beings located in an ideal world.

~ Paul Henri Thiry D'holbach

It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you think, not the truth.

~ E. Lockhart

Zoroastrianism? Oh, there’s never been but a few hundred thousand of them at any one time, mostly located in Iran and India, but that’s it. The one true faith. If you’re not a Zoroastrian, I’m afraid you are bound for Hell.”The man looked stunned and shocked. It's not fair. The demon gave a mirthful laugh. “Well, it was fair when you were sending all the Chinese to Hell who had never heard of Jesus. Wasn’t it?

~ Steven L. Peck

It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.

~ David Baldacci

There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right.

~ Samantha *

100% of a Guru’s marketing plan depends on you holding the belief that you are not enough, that you were created less equipped than necessary to fulfill your purpose. What if you let go of that belief and connected with the truth of your innate power to change and shape your life? You ARE enough. You CAN change and shape your own life. Anyone who tells you different is simply lying. Your life has immeasurable potentiality for greatness, act accordingly.

~ Steve Maraboli

Strangely enough, I don't seem to tolerate food in great quantities or when it is too rich anymore.”“That's perfectly all right. Most people dig their graves with their own teeth as it is.

~ Andrew Ashling

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

~ William Faulkner

It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.

~ Barbara Marciniak

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.

~ Charles Darwin

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

~ David Gemmell

Stories are not like the real world, they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.

~ Tahir Shah

If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

~ Chögyam Trungpa

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

~ Alan Watt

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

~ K.p. Yohannan

When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them love. They are to be acknowledged for speaking their truth.

~ Barbara Marciniak

Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.

~ David Mitchell

The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities.--- Charlotte Bronte

~ Juliet Barker

Wedded she some years, and to a manOf fifty, and such husbands are in plenty;And yet, I think, instead of such a ONE'Twere better to have TWO of five and twenty...

~ George Gordon Byron

There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn parks. Another way to make your place is TV. A bright, brash place, always well lit, full of fun and jokes that tell you when to laugh so you never miss them. World news carefully edited so that it’s not too disturbing, but disturbing enough to make you glad that you weren’t born in a foreign country. News with music to tell you who to hate, who to feel sorry for, and who laugh at.

~ David Mitchell

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

~ James Webb Young

In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers.

~ Col. Thomas Aspinwall

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds—that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

~ Virginia Woolf

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

~ Norah Vincent

I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

~ Frank O'connor

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men.

~ Joseph Conrad

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

~ Langston Hughes

In simplicity there is truth.

~ River Phoenix

I continue to marvel at the reluctancy of people to look into the mirror and see all the darkness that's within them: all the deceit, the dishonesty, the insincerity, the lack, the need, the want, the lies...they would rather look upon the mural of themselves that they've painted on the wall, and stare at that inanimate portrait of beauty, all the while telling themselves that it is the mirror image of them! This is a falsity, this is unreal! It is only when you turn to the unveiled mirror and bravely face your light and your darkness at once, that you will be able to see the true image of you! How can you pull the thorns from your skin if you are too afraid to open your eyes and look at them? You must open your eyes first, look at the thorns where they are piercing your flesh, and only then can you pull them out!

~ C. Joybell C.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith