Truth Quotes

Myth is not about whether something is fact or fiction; myth is more about truth. Good myth, according to the old adage, is about something that continues to be true again and again, over time.

~ Randy S. Woodley

For everything you embrace, there is a consequence

~ Sunday Adelaja

Truth is not the same for everyone whereas facts are.

~ John Day

You must take into account the actual distinction between truth and fact. It is beyond all human power to tell all the facts. Your whole lifetime spent at nothing else would not tell all the facts of one morning in your life, just any ordinary morning when you get up, dress, get breakfast and wash the dishes. Facts are infinite in number. The truth is a meaning underlying them; you tell the truth by selecting the facts to illustrate it.

~ Rose Wilder Lane

Sometimes I'm tired simply means I need something new.

~ Phumi Ngwane

We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact.

~ Walter Kirn

The homeland might be lacking snakes, but it held its share of venom.

~ Dorien Kelly

Love does not blind and it can't, only those lovers sometimes do blind.

~ Oladosu Feyikogbon

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

~ Kiera Cass

Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.

~ Saahil Prem

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

~ William James

REAL TRUTH COMES FROM FACT..

~ Venkata Naveen Kasagana

Let happiness bloom. In the caring love,In the softness of your tender voice,In the nonjudgmental love,In the beauty and pureness of a smile.

~ Debasish Mridha

You can only access the beautiful world through faith by truthfully embracing beauty and caring.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

~ Mark W. Boyer

The truth never hurts worse than finding out someone you care about lied to you.

~ Paula Stokes

It seems too simplistic that just repeating a persuasive message should increase its effect, but that’s exactly what psychological research finds (again and again). Repetition is one of the easiest and most widespread methods of persuasion. In fact it’s so obvious that we sometimes forget how powerful it is.

~ Jeremy Bean

They have lied to us. They can't keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative structure of lies. What have they ever given us in return for the trust, the love--They actually say 'love'--we're supposed to owe Them? Can They keep us from even catching cold? from lice, from being alone? from anything? Before the Rocket we went on believing, because we wanted to. But the Rocket can penetrate, from the sky, at any given point. Nowhere is safe. We can't believe Them any more. Not if we are still sane, and love the truth.

~ Thomas Pynchon

I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Meg invited me to come again, but I always had reasons why I couldn't: my schedule was busy, bus fare wasn't cheap. Both of which were true, even if they weren't the truth.

~ Gayle Forman

Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie.

~ Glenda Bailey-Mershon

Why are you lying to me? I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?

~ Kasie West

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

The lie detector didn’t react to anything I said, but I wouldn’t dare smile.

~ Embee

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

~ Stephen King

Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's about using those lies to say something true and real. It's about showing the reader something. It's about making them

~ Stacia Kane

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

Weren't movies his generation's faith anyway--its true religion? Wasn't the theater our temple, the one place we enter separately but emerge from two hours later together, with the same experience, same guided emotions, same moral?...what was that but a religion?

~ Jess Walter

By eroding their sense of shame we've made immorality normal, not only in the world but also in the forbidden squadron. ...their new Christian friends recommended some of the movies Fletcher had been wondering if he should now avoid. I was delighted one of them said, This is a great movie--only one sex scene, and the f-word's only used a few times. 'Titanic' is one of my favorites. How many Christian young people have watched it in their own homes? Think of it, Squaltaint. Suppose someone in the youth group said to the boys, 'There's an attractive girl down the street. Let's get together and go look through her window and watch her undress and lay back on a couch and pose naked from the waist up. Then this girl and her boyfriend will get in a car and have sex--let's get as close as we can and listen to them and watch the windows steam up.' The strategy would never work. They'd know immediately it was wrong. But you can get them to do exactly the same thing by using a television instead of a window. That's all is takes! Think of it, Squaltaint. Every day Christians across the country, including many squadron leaders, watch women and men undress and commit acts of fornication and adultery the Enemy calls an abomination.We've made them a bunch of voyeurs! Churches full of peeping toms.

~ Randy Alcorn

It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.

~ Ziauddin Yousafzai

Like most people I am smarter than some, dumber than others, skinnier than most, and fatter than a few, but none was ever more confused than I was. I flew with confusion always parallel to me, and a whole internal chase at my rear. The one matter that was not confusing to me, but seemed to escape all the others, was the fact that the only thing that was certain to become obsolete, would necessarily become wearied and worn, was the truth. I knew this in spite of the truth that I had had little truck with the truth in my life. It was not that I considered myself a resident in a den of lies, but rather that my history was shrouded and diced and soaking wet with hysteria and contradiction. Contradictions or no, my trajectory through life, though different from most, was, nonetheless, a trajectory.

~ Percival Everett

People respond more to the authority of status, than the authority of truth.

~ A.j. Darkholme

The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from religious experience: when religious authorities began to insist on the literal truth of scripture, they were effectively promoting a kind of secular rationalism that states that one does not need to have a religious experience of any kind to live a moral life: all one has to do is declare one’s faith in scripture, in the doctrine of Jesus’ divinity and such, and accept the authority of the Holy Catholic Church as God’s representative on Earth.

~ Daniel Waterman

A person who wields power cannot see truth, that is the privilege of the powerless.

~ Lesslie Newbigin

...true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

~ John Geddes

There is no better way to find out the true heart, honor, and professionalism of a person, than seeing how they handle themselves and others when facing a crisis, disaster or intense level of pressure.

~ Loren Weisman

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

~ Seth Godin

It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely commemorating a battle in which he'd lost. (Though perhaps that's not so unusual: many people take a curatorial interest in their own scars.) He's shown astride his horse, waving a sword and about to gallop into the nearby petunia bed: a craggy man with seasoned eyes and pointed beard, every sculptor's idea of every cavalry leader. No one knows what Colonel Parkman really looked like, since he left no pictorial evidence of himself and the statue wasn't erected until 1885, but he looks like this now. Such is the tyranny of Art.On the left-hand side of the lawn, also with a petunia bed, is an equally mythic figure: the Weary Soldier, his three top shirt buttons undone, his neck bowed as if for the headman's axe, his uniform rumpled, his helmet askew, leaning on his malfunctioning Ross rifle. Forever young, forever exhausted, he tops the War Memorial, his skin burning green in the sun, pigeon droppings running down his face like tears.

~ Margaret Atwood