Truth Quotes
Quotes about Truth
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- “It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who...” — Jon Katz
- “Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-to...” — Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
- “His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looke...” — William Montgomery Watt, Muhammad At Mecca
- “A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; suc...” — Robert F. Kennedy
- “Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made ...” — Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
- “Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more ...” — Jess C. Scott, The Other Side Of Life
- “The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persu...” — John F. Kennedy
- “You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only inter...” — Stephen Elliott, Happy Baby
- “Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth t...” — Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Vol. 2
- “One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fai...” — Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat The Small Stuff ... And It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways To Keep The Little Things From Taking Over Your Life
- “How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How ...” — Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood
- “Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of de...” — Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
- “A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged by suffering and ye...” — Stasi Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling The Mystery Of A Woman's Soul
- “There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the wo...” — Mercedes Lackey, Brightly Burning
- “re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and yo...” — Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass
- “There is no compulsion for man to accept the truth. But it is certainly a shame upon the human intellect when man is not...” — Maurice Bucaille, The Qur'an And Modern Science
- “So you're always honest,"I said."Aren't you?""No,"I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not sa...” — Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
- “It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship...” — Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory
- “That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with ...” — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
- “We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new ca...” — Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
- “Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one...” — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life Of Bees
- “But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made y...” — Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
- “Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of...” — Louis-ferdinand Céline, Journey To The End Of The Night
- “There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant ...” — José N. Harris
- “Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others...” — Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions And Wonders
- “The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, an...” — Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
- “I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, he...” — Harry Crews, Getting Naked With Harry Crews: Interviews
- “I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and r...” — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- “This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anyt...” — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- “Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters ...” — Tom Hiddleston
- “While Owen and Miles talk sports, I people watch. And this is what I see: teenagers trying to act like adults. Or how th...” — Melody Carlson, Just Another Girl
- “My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of pe...” — David Sedaris
- “The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are r...” — J.d. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
- “Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity t...” — Shannon L. Alder
- “Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect...” — Janet Fitch, White Oleander
- “But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, ...” — Edmund Burke
- “My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I...” — Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
- “Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would onl...” — Jess C. Scott, The Other Side Of Life
- “People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above grou...” — Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
- “when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. G...” — Alex Flinn, Beastly
- “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live al...” — George Orwell, 1984
- “A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later...” — Sophie Kinsella, Confessions Of A Shopaholic
- “If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: f...” — Carl Von Clausewitz, On War: Volume 1
- “Love is the sister to Truth, but they differ in two ways. You must go to Truth to find her. She will never come looking ...” — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up And Salute The Sun: The Writings Of Suzy Kassem
- “Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new ...” — Malcolm X, The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
- “When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn...” — Shannon L. Alder
- “Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive...” — George Eliot, Adam Bede
- “But I know just what it feels like to have a voice in the back of my head, like a face that I hold inside, face that awa...” — Linkin Park, Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
- “If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, th...” — Cassandra Clare, City Of Heavenly Fire
- “What my parents kept failing to understand was how happy I was when I was alone with my books. There was no pressure to ...” — Lisa Yee, Millicent Min, Girl Genius