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Truth Quotes


"I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth."


"The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!"


"Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to."


"The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it."


"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."


"I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth."


"Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth."


"Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see."


"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."


"I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind."


"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand."


"If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America."


"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."


"But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey."


"It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime."


"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."


"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."


"As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me."


"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister."


"Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams."


"Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards."


"I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out."


"But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man."


"Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things."
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