Truth Quotes

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I value the discourse that arises from this. I can only hope for this discourse to be informed by fact, so that whether you love my work or hate it, you give it, and me, the benefit of the truth.

~ Terry Richardson

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

~ Benjamin E. Mays

The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.

~ Kevin Rudd

The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.

~ Lee Brice

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

~ Voltaire

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

~ Frank Herbert

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

~ Anthony Collins

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.

~ Robert B. Laughlin

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

~ David Duchovny

Democrats pride themselves on their commitment to science. Citing climate change, they contend that they are the party of truth, while Republicans are 'denialists.' But with respect to genetically modified organisms, many Democrats seem indifferent to science, and to be practicing a denialism of their own - perhaps more so than Republicans.

~ Cass Sunstein

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

~ L. Lionel Kendrick

You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that, it will not betray you.

~ Theresa Rebeck

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

~ Ken Starr

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

~ Ellen Degeneres

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

~ Pablo Neruda

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

~ James Allen

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

~ Sylvester Stallone

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

~ Émile Zola

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

~ Virginia Woolf

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

~ John Locke

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

~ Leonard Cohen

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

~ Virginia Woolf

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

~ George Santayana

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

~ Margaret Fuller

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.

~ Winnie Holzman

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

~ Henry Timrod

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

~ Charles Bukowski

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

~ Dick Clark

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

~ William Temple

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.

~ Rob Thomas

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.

~ Sloane Crosley

I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first; otherwise, they will shoot you.

~ Sayed Kashua

Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

~ Grace Slick

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

~ Kara Swisher

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

~ Phil Anselmo

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

~ Barry Eisler

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

~ Robertson Davies

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

~ Brendan Coyle