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Truth Quotes


"There is no pre-mapped intellectual topology path leading to truth. Truth is a process of conducting a searching investigatory dialogue with oneself in an attempt to examine and discern the contents of a person's own mind. Every person must ask himself or herself what is essential in life."


"There will come a time when people hungering for the truth will seek it where it is supposedly disseminated, such as books and churches, but they will not hear the Word of the Lord. Instead of receiving a message to satisfy their spiritual longings, they will hear a sermon on some current political or social problem, or a sermonette on art and literature. And so they wander from one place to another, going from hope to despair, and eventually giving up."


"I'm not involved, not involved," I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action " even an opinion is a kind of action."


"Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them."


"Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion."


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


"There is nothing called as truth, it's just your new perception."


"She shook her head and whispered, 'No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!''You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!"


"The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming."


"So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him."


"No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes."



"But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer."


"Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time - forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals."


"There are times when the truth can only show you an illusion."


"To maintain your integrity, be a person who does not violate the principles of the truth. Vote for truth even if you have to vote alone; believe it "your vote will not be lost"!"


"The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense."


"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction."


"But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it."


"People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit."



"I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction."


"Well, people are like that too. THey create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is bare rock... And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself."


"They didn't change, they just got tired of pretending."


"But after reading it he knew better than before that he was not mad. Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."


"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."


"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."


"If anyone doesn't agree with you, the truth is on your side."


"It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are."


"Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it."


"The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth."
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