Truth Quotes

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life... But I'm not a romantic. I'm just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice.

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.