1,019 Quotes Regarding Truth


The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
Peter Ustinov

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
Peter Ustinov

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
Madeleine L'Engle

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
King Hussein I

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
Jean Claude Van Damme

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
A. N. Wilson

The truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann Hesse

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.
Brad Pitt

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Novalis

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
John Dryden

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
David Hume

To tell the truth is revolutionary.
Antonio Gramsci

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Martha Beck

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.
Roger Bacon

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.
Donald Cargill

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.
Katherine Mansfield

Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
Jawaharlal Nehru

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
Alice Miller

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Alfred Adler