Truth Quotes

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

You never monkey with the truth.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.