Truth Quotes

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

~ Brendan Coyle

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

~ Robert Mankoff

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

~ Sid Caesar

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

~ Charles Lindbergh

War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

~ Bayard Rustin

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

~ Winston Churchill

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

~ Warren Buffett

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

~ Carol Gilligan

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

~ Mason Cooley

The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.

~ Orison Swett Marden

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

~ Bob Woodward

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

~ Pietro Aretino

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

~ Deepak Chopra

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

~ William Shakespeare

I trust you: That's huge. That's truth. That's real love. Everyone uses 'I love you' so loosely.

~ Justin Chatwin

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

~ John Locke

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

~ Petrarch

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

~ Thomas Moore

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

~ Marie De France

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

~ Jeanette Winterson

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

~ Helen Hayes

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

~ Padma Lakshmi

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

~ Jessica Valenti

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

~ Henry Reed

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

~ Dave Barry

In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

~ Henry Rollins

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

~ Orlando Bloom

Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.

~ Adam Mckay

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.

~ Jimmy Kimmel

The plus size movement is not just about fashion; it's about body image, and if we're doing a shoot, they won't retouch us at all. That's the cool thing: there's no retouching at all because we want to give girls the truth, not a fabrication.

~ Hayley Hasselhoff

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

~ George Carlin

The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a candle to the dark, as Carl Sagan would say. We aren't sure what will work, when, or how much. But for all that uncertainty, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

~ Kyle Hill

Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.

~ Paul Washer

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

~ Fernando Flores

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

~ Branch Rickey

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

~ Dan Rather

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

~ George Harrison