Truth Quotes

The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People want a fool to be foolish--trip on banana peels and grin and spout nonsense. These men want fools to make them feel better about themselves, not to remind them what they lack.

~ Kelli Swofford Nielsen

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

~ Orson Scott Card

In a time when society is drowning in tsunamis of misinformation, it is possible to change the world for the better if we repeat the truth often and loud enough.

~ Alberto Cairo

If you not longer let the community hear all of it's significant voices - you begin to have; a single narrow view of: the problems of the society,of the solutions of society - and you begun soon or later overwhelmed by the society you don't understand.

~ Ben Bagdikian

The truth is usually somewhere in the gray turbulent eddies set in motion by the mixture of black and white.

~ Ken Poirot

You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.

~ Erwin Knoll

I chiefly concern myself with those who seldom get a hearing, & I don't feel it is incumbent on me to balance their voices with the well-crafted apologetics of the powerful. The powerful are generally excellently served by the mainstream media or propaganda organs. The powerful should be quoted, yes, but to measure their pronouncements against the truth, not to obscure it.

~ Joe Sacco

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

~ John L'heureux

Truth shrilled in prison or cemetary.

~ Toba Beta

Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying to catch a falling leaf. Occasionally you may grab one out of the air and hold it in your hands, but now what?

~ Daniel J. Rice

Live like you want, not how others want you to live.

~ Anonymous

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it.

~ David Levithan

Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

~ Susan Hill

Impression forms opinion, opinion deforms truth!

~ Abhijit Kar Gupta

The present importance of the Book of Job cannot be expressed adequately even by saying that it is the most interesting of ancient books. We may almost say of the Book of Job that it is the most interesting of modern books. In truth, of course, neither of the two phrases covers the matter, because fundamental human religion and fundamental human irreligion are both at once old and new; philosophy is either eternal or it is not philosophy. The modern habit of saying, 'This is my opinion, but I may be wrong,' is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying 'Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and its suits me'; the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Broken boys are dangerous, but broken men are lovely.

~ Dominic Riccitello

The complexity of a subject, if crucial for understanding the story, needs to be shown in the visualisation. Thus, in many cases, clarifying a subject requires increasing the amount of information, not reducing it.

~ Alberto Cairo

Where life ends, peace begins!

~ Debasish Mridha

An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true.

~ Marty Rubin

In the beginning we seek truth. In the middle we seek reason. In the end we seek peace.

~ L.m. Browning

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

~ Henry David Thoreau

The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the experts consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so. (The proviso is essential, because measures which arouse serious resentment are seldom advantageous, whatever merits they may have otherwise.) The power of the politician, in a democracy, depends upon his adopting the opinions which seem right to the average man. It is useless to urge that politicians ought to be high-minded enough to advocate what enlightened opinion considers good, because if they do they are swept aside for others.

~ Bertrand Russell

In the last analysis, be always of whatever truth you would live.For fire flames but in the heart of a colder fire.All voice is but echo caught from a soundless voice.Height is not deprivation of valley, nor defect of desire,But defines, for the fortunate, that joy in which all joys should rejoice.

~ Robert Penn Warren

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.

~ Arundhati Roy

...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.

~ Marsha Norman

Don’t let psychological warfare from an advertisement campaign blind you from the truth of your beauty, possibility, worthiness, and purpose.

~ Steve Maraboli

The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.

~ S.t. Joshi

If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, social issues and problems are resolved in a civilized manner.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more you lie around doing nothing, the more you want to lie around doing nothing. Your limbs and your mind feel so heavy that it becomes a major effort just to lift your arm to channel surf.

~ Neal Shusterman

The most important truths are those which sustain us in our daily lives.

~ Marty Rubin

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

She had heard all about excluded middles; they were bad shit, to be avoided; and how had it ever happened here, with the chances once so good for diversity?

~ Thomas Pynchon

Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.

~ Mitch Landrieu

My own understanding is similar to that of scholar of religion and pastor Howard Thurman. I find a profound teaching in Thurman's saying that what is true in any religion is in the religion because it is true; it is not true because it is in the religion. Thurman's saying is true for Christian theology. If there is truth in a theology, then it is present simply because it is true, not because it is in the theology. Whether or not we can find truth in a school of thought or particular theological construction is most important, not the school of thought or particular theological construction. Therefore, I find events of truth to draw on from a diversity of theological writings, rather than locate my work in a particular school of thought. The truth we Christians seek, beyond all our words and all of our labels, is found through unity in diversity. It is the common ground we all long for. No one theology alone is capable of revealing this common ground. We require a diversity taken together, each with its distinctive gifts. Together, these various insights into Christian truth correct and inform one another. This is the gift of ecumenism.

~ Karen Baker-Fletcher

The page we have in our colouring book may appear to have a similar outline but we all vary in the way we fill in the space. Diversity keeps us interesting.Celebrate your differences.

~ Truth Devour

My visage high above your city,Shines like gold, but half as pretty.Arms I've none, but hands I've two:Mondo, mini, black not blue.Climb my stairs and have no fears, All that threatens are my gears.Tucked beneath the mightly wheel,An envelpe shall truth reveal.

~ Megan Frazer Blakemore

Once we were a stranger... just passing by.......in school... we never know each other... but one day came and we became friends.

~ Deyth Banger

If we expect to “know” the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, we may have a hard time seeing the whole picture, since the truth is a willful construction that allows us often merely to “guess”. (Hinter der Mattscheibe)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Sometimes you know when someone is telling you the truth.

~ Todd Strasser