Truth Quotes

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

I've been the luckiest man in the world because I've had friends, and to have the right friends is everything: people you can depend on, people who tell you the truth if you ask something.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, 'Do not seek approval from the audience.' People don't realize that. You can't do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.