Truth Quotes

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

~ Stephen King

The good die when they should live, the evil live when they should die; heroes perish and cowards escape; noble efforts do not succeed because they are noble, and wickedness is consumed in its own nature. Looking at truth is not at first a heartening experience--it becomes so, if at all, only with time, with infinite patience, and with the luck of a little personal happiness.

~ William Alexander Percy

Luck always favors those who are bold.

~ Debasish Mridha

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.

~ Margaret Mitchell

It's all about money, not freedom. You think you're free? Try going somewhere without money.

~ Bill Hicks

Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people

~ Anonymous

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Where there's love, gossip won't strive or thrive.

~ Kemi Sogunle

All the while, when Nazneen turned to her prayers and tried to empty her mind and accept each new thing with grace or indifference, Chanu worked his own method. He was looking for the same essential thing. But he thought he could grab it from the outside and hold it against his chest like a shield...Where Nazneen turned in, he turned out; where she strove to accept, he was determined to struggle; where she attempted to dull her mind and numb her thoughts, he argued loud; while she wanted to look neither to the past nor to the future, he lived exclusively in both. They took different paths but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.

~ Monica Ali

When I say truth people want to kill me, some people think that this something is a lot of, but this is bullshit without it or with it I don't really see differences. The results from school are like the results of not doing nothing or this is equal??

~ Deyth Banger

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

~ Debasish Mridha

If I want to be anything, I want to be a messenger of peace.

~ Debasish Mridha

My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, John Barton, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Forché and Elizabeth Philips for their masterful eyes and minds.

~ Leigh Kotsilidis

Teamwork is great for all, but result is greater for some.

~ Toba Beta

Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?

~ Emily Horner

Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?

~ Toba Beta

She was a woman who lived however she wished without care for another, without putting the needs of those around her before her own selfish opinions. We are breeding a nation of such thinkers and individuals--intent on personal expression at all costs--and that will lead to war. I might be more a successful writer if I did not seek to address human truth, but rather spewed out my own limited opinions without care for reader or critic or any kind of propriety.

~ Erika Robuck

True happiness lies in being compassionate and appreciating the world and our circumstances, rather than being coldhearted and greedy. We often realize too late that our favorite moments are those spent simply with the people we love. In seeing the miracles that unfold around us every day. Eventually we all come to understand that our happiness is derived from being present in the moment. Why wait until the end of your life to discover this Truth?

~ Russell Simmons

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

~ Leo Tolstoy

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally 'inherit' tradition.

~ C.s. Lewis

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

~ Alfred Hitchcock

Let my love show you the way and give you guidance in the moment of need.

~ Debasish Mridha

Surfing and Life hold parallels.

~ Elizabeth Salalmanca-Brosig

The ordeal is not that truth does not win, it is that it wins in the end.

~ Raheel Farooq

Truth, simplicity and love. These are the three main aspects of Eden Fruitarianism which the acolyte seeks to embrace, expand and better understand.

~ Mango Wodzak

Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.

~ Criss Jami

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Something good happened to my writing when stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn’t do something more complex. Don’t be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.

~ Carrie Newcomer

There is a level of consciousness between sleeping and fully wakening when the worries of the day have not settled upon us; the body is stilled, and the senses wholly receptive. If the sun is bright, there is pure silence, or the birds are beginning to sing, this shining level of consciousness can come to be the nearest we will get to paradise this side of our quietus, Every day should begin so, This is no dream. This is the reality. The world outside is beautiful. We do our best to hide it. We cover it. We push it father back. The ugliness we make ourselves. We originate our own worries. We put on our own shackles; build our prisons. We can only glimpse the golden reality, briefly, through our tiny barred windows.

~ John Wyatt

It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.

~ Reginald Rose

If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.

~ Clamp

I’ve never known anyone who was saved who did not first save herself.

~ Wendy Wunder

Sometimes I Wonder Where Those Spirits Go After Departing From The Bodies, Then I Realize, They Are All Around Us, In The Nature, Full of Spirits In Different Forms....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

[It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth.

~ George Oppen

My hope is that, factual or fabricated, every line in Tsarina leads to a single truth: that when you forget that those you disagree with are people, not just your faceless opposition, you don't end up proving who is right and who is wrong. You end up with a body count.

~ J. Nelle Patrick

Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time. He is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will draw all men sooner or later. For all men live by truth and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

~ Robert Graves