I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.
~By Joe Wilson ~
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
~By Susanna Moodie ~
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
~By Ramakrishna ~
There is no original truth, only original error.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
~By Claude Adrien Helvetius ~
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
~By Sojourner Truth ~
My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.
~By Deborah Cox ~
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
~By Jock Sturges ~
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
~By Phyllis Bottome ~
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
~By Peter Abelard ~
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
~By Michael Jackson ~
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.
~By Ron Dellums ~
You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.
~By Renny Harlin ~
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
~By Billy Wilder ~
Truth, also is the pursuit of it.
~By George Oppen ~
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
~By Josh Billings ~
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
~By Origen ~
As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.
~By Melissa Auf der Maur ~
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
~By Douglas William Jerrold ~
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
~By Stanley Baldwin ~
The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
~By Simone Weil ~
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
~By Karl Pearson ~
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
~By John Shelby Spong ~
It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
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.
~By Dave Van Ronk ~
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
~By Stephen Colbert ~
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
~By Anais Nin ~
If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
~By George A. Smith ~
And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
~By Ernst Toller ~
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.
~By Robert M. Pirsig ~
I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.
~By Jim Garrison ~
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
~By Jane Austen ~
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.
~By David Selby ~
The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
~By Anthony Quinn ~
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
~By Vivien Leigh ~
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
~By Carl Jung ~
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
~By Thornton Wilder ~
The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
~By Jack Bowman ~
Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.
~By Sam Sheppard ~
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
~By Mark Twain ~
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
~By Leonard Cohen ~
While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
~By Al Gore ~
The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.
~By James Ellroy ~
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
~By Aesop ~
There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.
~By David O. McKay ~
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
~By Voltaire ~
I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.
~By Antonio de Mendoza ~
The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence.
~By Michael Medved ~
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.
~By Friedrich Schleiermacher ~
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.
~By Joe Wilson ~
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
~By Wen Ho Lee ~
To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.
~By Jane Roberts ~
I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
~By John Wycliffe ~
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
Error is always more busy than truth.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
~By David Brock ~
Truth is what works.
~By William James ~
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
~By June Jordan ~
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
~By Bob Woodward ~
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
~By Stephen King ~
The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.
~By Kenneth Starr ~
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.
~By Lee Child ~
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
~By Winston Churchill ~
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
~By Silius Italicus ~
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
~By John Ruskin ~
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
~By John Burroughs ~
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
~By George Orwell ~
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
~By Max Frisch ~
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
~By Sophocles ~
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
~By Franz Kafka ~
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
~By George Byron ~
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
~By Paul Valery ~
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
~By Al Capp ~
The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
~By Richard Foreman ~
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
~By Ernest Renan ~
Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
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