Truth Quotes

I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth.

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

There's no truth anymore.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally 'less fortunate' only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive.

The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

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.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.