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Truth Quotes
"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."
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"In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him."
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"The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth."
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"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search."
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"...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything that can be thought with the mind and said with words is one-sided, it's all just the half of it, lacking completeness, roundness, or unity."
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"Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests."
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"Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?"
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"Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not."
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"To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire."
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"The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows."
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"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."
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"Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of ship. With anything of size, truth takes a long time in coming. Sometimes it only manifests itself posthumously."
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"Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth."
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"Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it."
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"Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth."
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"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."
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"As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth."
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"But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another."
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"I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly."
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"No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so."
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"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."
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"It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth."
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"I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out."
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"Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship."
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"All generalizations are false, including this one."
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"Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference."
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"So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth."
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"We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States."
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"I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar."
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"The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species."
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"God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."
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