Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
~By William Cowper ~
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
~By Frances Wright ~
Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
~By Peter Abelard ~
Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.
~By William Gurnall ~
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
~By Edward Bond ~
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
~By John Locke ~
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
~By David Hume ~
Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
~By Lucian Freud ~
I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
~By Barry White ~
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
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.
~By Xenophanes ~
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
~By William Masters ~
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
~By Michael Flanders ~
Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.
~By Ethel Waters ~
We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.
~By John McCain ~
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
~By Horace Mann ~
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
~By Daniel Webster ~
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
~By Frank Sinatra ~
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
~By Leonard Cohen ~
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
~By Plato ~
The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.
~By David Krumholtz ~
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.
~By Allison Krauss ~
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
~By Demosthenes ~
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.
~By Sibel Edmonds ~
I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.
~By Red Buttons ~
We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.
~By Charles Seymour ~
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
~By Alfred Nobel ~
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
~By Tertullian ~
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
~By Robert M. Pirsig ~
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.
~By Geri Halliwell ~
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
~By John Ciardi ~
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
~By Martin Luther ~
Science is but an image of the truth.
~By Francis Bacon ~
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
~By Laura Riding ~
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 ~
Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.
~By John Carmack ~
Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
~By Protagoras ~
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
~By Ben Bradlee ~
I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
~By James L. Brooks ~
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.
~By Lewis J. Bates ~
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
~By Stanley Baldwin ~
As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
~By Hans Kung ~
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
~By Michelle Obama ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
~By Thomas Paine ~
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
~By Mary Harris Jones ~
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
~By Malcolm X ~
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~By Graham Greene ~
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
~By Richard Morris ~
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
~By John Cusack ~
Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.
~By Winston Churchill ~
A gift of truth is the gift of love.
~By David Icke ~
But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
~By Victor Garber ~
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
~By Ira Glass ~
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
~By William Moulton Marston ~
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
~By Madeleine L'Engle ~
The great seal of truth is simplicity.
~By Herman Boerhaave ~
Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
~By Charles Schumer ~
A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.
~By Trent Lott ~
I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.
~By Luke Scott ~
I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
~By Burt Bacharach ~
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
~By Anita Desai ~
All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.
~By Alan Dershowitz ~
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
~By George Canning ~
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
~By Donna Tartt ~
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Adversity is the first path to truth.
~By Lord Byron ~
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
~By William Jennings Bryant ~
Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine.
~By Alexi Giannoulias ~
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