Truth Quotes

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

~ Khalil Gibran

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

~ Thomas S. Monson

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

~ Franz Schubert

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

~ Jeremy Bentham

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

~ Frank Norris

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.

~ Nina Hagen

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

~ Arthur C. Brooks

In 1977, when I became Speaker, I started meeting with TV reporters each morning when I arrived at work. Later in the morning, I would hold a news conference before the House opened. I always told the truth and almost never answered with 'no comment.'

~ Thomas P. O'neill

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

~ Aldous Huxley

The attorney general called and asked me if I was willing to be interviewed for FBI director. And the truth is I told him I didn't think so, that I thought it was too much for my family. But that I would sleep on it and call him back in the morning. And so I went to bed that night convinced I was going to call him back and say no.

~ James Comey

The reality is that you think you're going to have all this time out here, to do all this stuff, and the truth of the matter is, you just don't. If we're on the road, and we stay in the city we're in, I'm going to try to get up in the morning and get a workout in.

~ Trisha Yearwood

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

~ Carl Jung

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

~ Annie Besant

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

~ Giordano Bruno

Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.

~ Bonnie Hunt

The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.

~ Patrick Lencioni

Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling.

~ Michael Hayden

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

~ William Ellery Channing

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

~ Curt Weldon

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

~ Alan Keyes

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

~ Louis Kahn

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

~ John Ruskin

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

~ Martin Filler

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

~ Michael Graves

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

~ Michelle Obama

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.

~ Joshua Waitzkin

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

~ Albert Pike

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

~ Tony Robbins

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

~ Barbara Kruger

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

~ Albert Barnes

Love invites the Holy Ghost to be present to confirm truth. And the joy of learning divine truths creates love in the hearts of people who shared the experience of learning.

~ Henry B. Eyring

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

~ John Hope Franklin

We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!

~ Kathy Freston

The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

~ Feisal Abdul Rauf

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford