Truth Quotes

The Chinese poet George Wu ... recorded on his comlog: Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. Later, on his last disk to his lover the week before he died, Wu said: Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

~ Dan Simmons

Why would you tell us the truth? If Christina really wasn’t here, you’d tell us she was, to stall us from finding her. If James taught us one thing, it’s how to detect a lie. You just want us to leave so you can get her to talk. By the way, good luck with that -- Ida can’t even get her to admit that she stole her cousin’s candy at Halloween last year. And that was pretty obvious.

~ Embee

You should never use propaganda to teach kids the truth.

~ Lisa Samson

I was a young impressionable 13 year old hearing the pro-left and pro-right argument. So one day I would be convinced that one side was right. the other day I would be convinced the other side was right. And then I was getting confused. How can both of these things be true if they were contrary to each other. So I decided to focus on a field where the truth didn't dependent upon the eloquence of the speaker. The truth was absolute.

~ Savas Dimopoulos

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

~ Richard Feynman

Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have.

~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

~ Lemony Snicket

Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves.

~ Debasish Mridha

Single life is the best life until you get hit by lonely nights.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...

~ Amilcar Cabral

The sky is not the limit, it's the starting point.

~ Tina Mag

There is at least one truth to every myth.

~ Suzy Kassem

Well, I want novels,' said Tessa. 'Or poetry. Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.' Will's eyes glittered. 'I think we may have a cope of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland about somewhere.' Tessa wrinkled her nose. 'Oh, that's for little children, isn't it?' she said. I never liked it much-seemed like so much nonsense.' Will's eyes were very blue. 'There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

~ Cassandra Clare

If you're as good as your word, words should be good enough.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Many people pretend to be in thought, proving thought to be a beautiful thing. But the bald man doesn’t need a comb, the tiger doesn’t need weapons, the fool doesn’t need thought. The person with no needs is practically a sage, but the sage also needs to count the rivers across the iron bridge to pass the time. This is the difference between the sage and the fool.

~ Xi Chuan

Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.

~ Gabriel Brunsdon

Embrace truth and peace as you breathe the joyful heights of inner fulfilling serenity.

~ Angelica Hopes

In the end, all disguises must drop.

~ Gregory Maguire

There are different kinds of judgment-making. Naturally, when we meet people, we form judgments based upon how we were taught to see the world and other people (how we were raised, what we've experienced and etc.) The first kind of judgment-making is the more commonplace thing: to judge and to write that judgment in stone. The second kind of judgment-making is the kind that I do: to judge but then to write those judgments in the sand near the shoreline where the waves lap onto, that way, if I am wrong, the waves of truth may easily wash away any judgments I have made and thus I can be malleable and shaped easily by truth rather than by preconceived notions. The second kind of judgment is crucial to life, because it allows us to appreciate people and circumstances to the fullest. It allows us to live.

~ C. Joybell C.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

~ Cornelius Van Til

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

~ Oscar Wilde

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

~ Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

~ Oscar Wilde

We need to be wise consumers of information in an age of artificially created reality, written by professional propagandists, bought and paid for by special interests who many times disguise themselves as grassroots movements but are nothing but AstroTurf. They’ll give you turf burns and turf toe, but never the truth.

~ H.l. Wegley

Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth.

~ Amit Kalantri

It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives a shit. And when I multiplied that sad feeling by all the millions of people in their lonely little rooms, furiously writing and posting to their lonely little pages that nobody has time to read because they’re all so busy writing and posting, it kind of broke my heart.

~ Ruth Ozeki

You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she

~ Katherine Owen

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

~ Debasish Mridha

Don’t care about day to day things, don’t care about the mundane, but care about what matters.

~ Debasish Mridha

...Come home, Bod.' ‘I think . . . I said things to Silas. He’ll be angry.’ ‘If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him,’ was all she said.

~ Neil Gaiman

In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.

~ Madelaine Standing

Socialism is the way, the truth, and the light.

~ Carl-John X. Veraja

Be confident. Be successful. Bebeautiful. Be intelligent. Be hard working. Be carefree. Be modest.Be driven. Be forgiving. Be creative. Be relaxed. Be motivated. Beeducated. Be thoughtful. Be kind. Be determined. Be good. Just beyou!

~ Russell Strand

Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of yourbeing, you have to become that.

~ Dr Wayne Dyer

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

~ Chris Crutcher

What do you do when you wait too long only to be disappointed? Get on with it my mate, the clocks are ticking and they ain't goin' na pack 'emselves up.

~ Diana Jaber

God she hated the dance. A blow to the cheek one minute and discussing a romantic getaway the next. It was the one step forward, two steps back waltz. She wanted to scream. Sitting on the side of the bed, Claire allowed herself tears and swallowed

~ Aleatha Romig

For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back.

~ Agatha Christie

Thousand people, thousand heart, thousand opinions;One truth.

~ Sandesh Limbu

Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this credits his business too much and not quite enough. As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas consummation often turns out to be elusive. Truth captured loses its glamour; truths long known and widely believed have a way of turning false with time; easy truths are bore and too many of them become half truths. Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties. Harold Rosenberg summed up this side of the life of the mind supremely well when he said that the intellectual is one who turns answers into questions.

~ Richard Hofstadter