Truth Quotes

"Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction."
-Diana Ossana

"It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth."
-Sharon Stone

"'As a kid, you see something that you know in your heart is true. It's such a huge hypocrisy that it makes you think, 'Well, if this is a truth that I know about that's not officially accepted, at least in this country, then how many other truths are there that are under the surface that need to come out?''."
-Serj Tankian

"If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth."
-Gerald Vann

"The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it."
-Dorothy L. Sayers

"Truth is always the sum of two half truths and one never catches them at the same time!"
-Harold J. Duarte bernhardt

"'Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.'"
-Michael Jackson

"I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth."
-Louis Agassiz

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on."
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
-Kahlil Gibran

"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board."
-Henry David Thoreau

"It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear."
-Henry David Thoreau

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
-Albert Einstein

"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle."
-Albert Einstein

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
-Albert Einstein

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible."
-Albert Einstein

"The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."
-Mark Twain

"A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
-Mark Twain

"When in doubt, tell the truth."
-Mark Twain

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain

"Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction."
-Mark Twain