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Truth Quotes
"Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well."
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"Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth."
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"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."
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"The Apocalypse . . . a storm warning that carries a booming jolt of truth-Trouble ahead, prepare to meet thy God!-followed by the voice of the Gentle Shepherd-Come!"
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"He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue."
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"A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape."
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"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
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"There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny."
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"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."
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"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."
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"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
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"Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed."
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"My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God's word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth."
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"To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth."
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"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."
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"There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect."
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"Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth."
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"Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception."
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"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
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"I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days."
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"What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts."
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"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
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"Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth."
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"Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way."
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"Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that."
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"Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy."
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