Here’s the best collection of 1000 truth quotes. Truth probably is the most important virtue of humanity. When we think of truth, thought of Mahatma Gandhi comes naturally first.
Truth Quotes
1. Humility is truth. – Desiderius Erasmus
2. Truth will prevail. – Gordon B. Hinckley
3. Truth is a tendency. – R. Buckminster Fuller
4. Truth is what works. – William James
5. Time discovers truth. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
6. Seek truth from facts. – Deng Xiaoping
7. Exactitude is not truth. – Henri Matisse
8. Sincerity is moral truth. – George Henry Lewes
9. Truth is a pathless land. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
10. Veiling truth in mystery. – Virgil
11. I always come from truth. – Tiger Woods
12. There’s no truth anymore. – Johnny Depp
13. Facts are stubborn things. – Ronald Reagan
14. Justice is truth in action. – Benjamin Disraeli
15. The color of truth is gray. – Andre Gide
16. Ideas are, in truth, force. – Henry James
17. Tell the children the truth. – Bob Marley
18. When in doubt tell the truth. – Mark Twain
19. Light is the symbol of truth. – James Russell Lowell
20. Time is on the side of truth. – Ezra Taft Benson
21. Wisdom is found only in truth. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
22. The words of truth are simple. – Aeschylus
23. We are free to yield to truth. – Horace
24. Silence is the mother of truth. – Benjamin Disraeli
25. A lot of truth is said in jest. – Eminem
26. The truth is lived, not taught. – Hermann Hesse
27. No legacy is so rich as honesty. – William Shakespeare
28. Half a truth is often a great lie. – Benjamin Franklin
29. Tell the truth, but tell it slant. – Emily Dickinson
30. Truth is powerful and it prevails. – Sojourner Truth
31. Politics won’t allow for the truth. – P. J. O’Rourke
32. Live truth instead of professing it. – Elbert Hubbard
33. The truth needs so little rehearsal. – Barbara Kingsolver
34. Fiction is the truth inside the lie. – Stephen King
35. A writer’s job is to tell the truth. – Andy Rooney
36. Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. – Walt Whitman
37. Facts are many, but the truth is one. – Rabindranath Tagore
38. Adversity is the first path to truth. – Lord Byron
39. Truth exists; only lies are invented. – Georges Braque
40. Science is but an image of the truth. – Francis Bacon
41. Truth is in things, and not in words. – Herman Melville
42. Truth suffers from too much analysis. – Frank Herbert
43. All great truths begin as blasphemies. – George Bernard Shaw
44. Peace if possible, truth at all costs. – Martin Luther
45. The first reaction to truth is hatred. – Tertullian
46. Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. – Matthew Arnold
47. Truth is on the side of the oppressed. – Malcolm X
48. Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. – George Eliot
49. The Scriptures are the truth from God. – Rick Warren
50. Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. – Arthur Miller
51. The truth does not need to be defended. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
52. The object of the superior man is truth. – Confucius
53. Truth disappears with the telling of it. – Lawrence Durrell
54. Half a truth is better than no politics. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
55. There are no facts, only interpretations. – Friedrich Nietzsche
56. My longing for truth was a single prayer. – Edith Stein
57. Truth never damages a cause that is just. – Mahatma Gandhi
58. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. – Pablo Picasso
59. The best mind-altering drug is the truth. – Lily Tomlin
60. All truth is not to be told at all times. – Samuel Butler
61. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde
62. The words of truth are always paradoxical. – Lao Tzu
63. Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. – Arthur Conan Doyle
64. Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. – Christopher Marlowe
65. Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. – Adolf Loos
66. A lie told often enough becomes the truth. – Vladimir Lenin
67. The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. – Henry David Thoreau
68. Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. – Samuel Johnson
69. A new untruth is better than an old truth. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
70. The truth is more important than the facts. – Frank Lloyd Wright
71. Truth is exact correspondence with reality. – Paramahansa Yogananda
72. Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. – William Butler Yeats
73. The truth is that men are tired of liberty. – Benito Mussolini
74. Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen. – Hunter S. Thompson
75. A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. – Thomas Mann
76. Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
77. Truth springs from argument amongst friends. – David Hume
78. There is no truth. There is only perception. – Gustave Flaubert
79. We have art in order not to die of the truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
80. Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato
81. Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. – Harry S Truman
82. The truth is an anti-war statement in itself. – Henry Rollins
83. The intuition of free will gives us the truth. – Corliss Lamont
84. Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth. – Nipsey Hussle
85. Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. – Aristotle
86. Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. – Khalil Gibran
87. Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. – George Eliot
88. Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. – Lord Byron
89. The universe is transformation: life is opinion. – Marcus Aurelius
90. Learn what is true in order to do what is right. – Thomas Huxley
91. All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie? – Friedrich Nietzsche
92. Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. – Francis Bacon
93. When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. – Otto von Bismarck
94. I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth. – Venus Williams
95. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson
96. Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. – Franz Kafka
97. Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. – Emily Dickinson
98. All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. – Bob Dylan
99. Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. – Lillian Hellman
100. I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. – Mahatma Gandhi
101. The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
102. To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. – Victor Hugo
103. Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power. – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
104. Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. – Mencius
105. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
106. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson
107. No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love. – Anna Held
108. Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. – Aristotle
109. For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. – Lord Byron
110. Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. – Miguel de Cervantes
111. You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered. – Ron White
112. The truth is, sex doesn’t mean that much to me now. – Lana Turner
113. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. – John Keats
114. Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. – Wallace Stevens
115. Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. – Mary Astell
116. A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. – Will Rogers
117. Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. – Pablo Picasso
118. Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. – Blaise Pascal
119. Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
120. There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. – Arthur Conan Doyle
121. I’m going to speak the truth when I’m asked about it. – Colin Kaepernick
122. I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. – Voltaire
123. In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
124. ‘Billboard’ needs to tell the truth, shake things up. – Prince
125. The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. – Shana Alexander
126. The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice. – Gloria Estefan
127. Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. – Jean-Paul Sartre
128. I don’t want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth. – Elizabeth Warren
129. Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive. – Bryant H. McGill
130. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. – Henry David Thoreau
131. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche
132. An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. – Aldous Huxley
133. Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. – Benjamin Disraeli
134. Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true. – Richard Bach
135. Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive. – Edna St. Vincent Millay
136. Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. – Marquis de Sade
137. The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. – Albert Camus
138. To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. – Bayard Rustin
139. The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth. – Claudio Monteverdi
140. You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes. – Maimonides
141. Truth is truth, whether labeled ‘science’ or ‘religion.’ – Ezra Taft Benson
142. People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth. – Tarana Burke
143. A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
144. Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. – Coco Chanel
145. Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
146. Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
147. There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. – Samuel Butler
148. There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find. – George Michael
149. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. – Mahatma Gandhi
150. Gossip is called gossip because it’s not always the truth. – Justin Timberlake
151. There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. – Andre Maurois
152. Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. – Hosea Ballou
153. Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. – Leo Rosten
154. Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t. – Mark Twain
155. By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. – George Carlin
156. Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. – Carl Jung
157. Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. – Francis Bacon
158. The great quest of life has always been to discover truth. – Joyce Meyer
159. The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. – Terry Pratchett
160. My only goal is to make you laugh, not tell you the truth. – Ron White
161. Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. – Horace Mann
162. There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. – Frank Ocean
163. The truth touches us. We try to be guided by this contact. – Pope Benedict XVI
164. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain
165. In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
166. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. – Aldous Huxley
167. It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. – Thomas Paine
168. If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. – Rabindranath Tagore
169. A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. – Aesop
170. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. – Willie Nelson
171. Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember. – David Mamet
172. Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth. – Ellen G. White
173. The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
174. There is little more powerful than when truth joins action. – Bryant H. McGill
175. Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. – Henry Rollins
176. Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer. – Michael Hayden
177. First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
178. As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. – Henry Rollins
179. The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death. – Shakira
180. Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. – David Icke
181. Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. – Jean Rostand
182. The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. – Ayn Rand
183. I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it. – Kevin Hart
184. We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. – Marcel Proust
185. Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. – Mark Twain
186. If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. – Will Rogers
187. The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. – James Madison
188. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. – Herman Melville
189. When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth. – Pete Rose
190. One is certain of nothing but the truth of one’s own emotions. – E. M. Forster
191. Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. – Mel Brooks
192. Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. – Khalil Gibran
193. Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. – Elizabeth Bowen
194. It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth. – Bob Kane
195. The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free. – Maya Angelou
196. Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. – Soren Kierkegaard
197. Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always. – Albert Schweitzer
198. Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at? – Lord Byron
199. Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth. – H. G. Wells
200. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. – Alfred Adler
201. A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. – Albert Camus
202. I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it. – Douglas Adams
203. If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. – Emile Zola
204. The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent. – Mahatma Gandhi
205. Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. – Rabindranath Tagore
206. The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth. – Charles Bukowski
207. The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it. – Conor McGregor
208. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. – Blaise Pascal
209. If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny. – Larry David
210. I couldn’t find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper. – Molly Ivins
211. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. – Andre Gide
212. The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. – James A. Garfield
213. Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. – Mahatma Gandhi
214. The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. – Leonardo da Vinci
215. And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade. – Alexander Pope
216. Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it. – P. T. Barnum
217. A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. – Joseph Conrad
218. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. – Albert Einstein
219. It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. – Henry David Thoreau
220. Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. – Joan of Arc
221. People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth. – P. J. O’Rourke
222. I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job. – Samuel Goldwyn
223. We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. – Lucretia Mott
224. To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. – Voltaire
225. When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete. – Vaclav Havel
226. For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. – Samuel Butler
227. There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. – Daniel Webster
228. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. – Buddha
229. I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist. – Jean-Paul Sartre
230. Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. – Aldous Huxley
231. What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. – Francis Bacon
232. Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. – W. Somerset Maugham
233. I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth. – Brad Pitt
234. A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. – William Blake
235. Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
236. Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’ – Khalil Gibran
237. Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. – Benjamin Disraeli
238. Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. – Frank Herbert
239. In families like mine, there is no crime worse than telling the truth. – Tara Westover
240. I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. – Herodotus
241. Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. – Louisa May Alcott
242. I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
243. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. – Mahatma Gandhi
244. Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
245. Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. – Margaret Thatcher
246. It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. – Charles Dickens
247. Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. – Rabindranath Tagore
248. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – Leo Tolstoy
249. If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? – Lily Tomlin
250. As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. – John Greenleaf Whittier
251. Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. – Jean-Luc Godard
252. Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. – George Washington
253. If now isn’t a good time for the truth I don’t see when we’ll get to it. – Nikki Giovanni
254. The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. – Emil Cioran
255. Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy. – Tertullian
256. The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself. – William Allen White
257. In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – Unknown
258. To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. – Rabindranath Tagore
259. All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. – D. H. Lawrence
260. Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves. – Marcel Duchamp
261. The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. – Jean-Luc Godard
262. By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth. – Peter Abelard
263. Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. – Francis Bacon
264. Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. – Rabindranath Tagore
265. Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. – John Ruskin
266. As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. – Josh Billings
267. I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people. – Nancy Pelosi
268. I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. – Hunter S. Thompson
269. Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. – Swami Vivekananda
270. The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. – Clarence Darrow
271. Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. – Mahatma Gandhi
272. Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. – Plato
273. It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. – Sophocles
274. Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. – Ansel Adams
275. The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on. – George Michael
276. Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. – Thomas Jefferson
277. The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. – Dorothy L. Sayers
278. Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. – Isaac Newton
279. The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. – Henry David Thoreau
280. The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. – Robert Louis Stevenson
281. My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world. – Muhammad Ali
282. That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. – Rumi
283. Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. – Lewis Carroll
284. Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. – Alexander Pope
285. Such truth, as opposeth no man’s profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. – Thomas Hobbes
286. How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in the truth. – Sophocles
287. Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. – Chuck Palahniuk
288. It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. – Mark Twain
289. Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. – C. S. Lewis
290. I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. – Harry S Truman
291. Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
292. The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. – Aristotle
293. I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world. – Buddha
294. Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true. – Bill Gates
295. Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. – Abraham Maslow
296. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. – George Herbert
297. Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
298. Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. – Elvis Presley
299. Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. – Henri Frederic Amiel
300. The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves. – Marilyn Monroe
301. Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. – Leonardo da Vinci
302. There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. – Charles Dickens
303. Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. – D. H. Lawrence
304. Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. – Tacitus
305. Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
306. I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken. – Robert Kiyosaki
307. We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians. – Yoko Ono
308. For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen. – John Dryden
309. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. – Benjamin Disraeli
310. There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. – John Kenneth Galbraith
311. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. – Virginia Woolf
312. One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
313. I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. – Harry S Truman
314. I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth. – Molly Ivins
315. Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. – Herman Melville
316. Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! – Swami Sivananda
317. There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. – Maya Angelou
318. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. – Thomas Jefferson
319. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Charles Spurgeon
320. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. – George Santayana
321. When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
322. Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. – Desiderius Erasmus
323. Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth. – Richard Rohr
324. I would definitely welcome lighter material, but I like to be where the truth lies. – Regina King
325. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. – Jesus Christ
326. Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. – Mark Twain
327. When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are. – Stephen Covey
328. The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied. – Gore Vidal
329. Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth. – Ezra Taft Benson
330. The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. – Samuel Butler
331. The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. – John F. Kennedy
332. There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously. – Thomas Sowell
333. We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
334. The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. – George Santayana
335. There are times a country is so tired of bull that only the truth can provide relief. – Molly Ivins
336. My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth. – Frank Ocean
337. All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. – Friedrich Nietzsche
338. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. – Winston Churchill
339. Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth. – Donald Trump
340. If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. – Pablo Picasso
341. Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. – Blaise Pascal
342. In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. – Leonard Cohen
343. There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world. – Thomas Jefferson
344. Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. – Aldous Huxley
345. Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency. – Pope Francis
346. The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust. – Steven Spielberg
347. Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. – W. Clement Stone
348. Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that. – Nathan Lane
349. God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us. – Mahatma Gandhi
350. People see truth in my films. That’s what they react to, and that’s what they relate to. – Tyler Perry
351. The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared. – Thomas S. Monson
352. ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. – John Keats
353. I’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth. – Sylvester Stallone
354. I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. – C. S. Lewis
355. I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense. – Ben Carson
356. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. – William Penn
357. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler
358. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. – Galileo Galilei
359. Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. – Stephen King
360. I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against. – Malcolm X
361. Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. – Friedrich Nietzsche
362. It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf
363. Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley
364. Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow. – Ambrose Bierce
365. We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. – Iris Murdoch
366. In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. – Winston Churchill
367. For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity. – George Orwell
368. Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. – John Locke
369. Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us. – Jawaharlal Nehru
370. From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds. – John Greenleaf Whittier
371. Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around. – Frank A. Clark
372. Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so. – Mark Twain
373. Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. – Ice Cube
374. A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me. – Joe Biden
375. Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. – Khalil Gibran
376. No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. – George Orwell
377. The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. – George Orwell
378. What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. – Benjamin Disraeli
379. More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth’s pocket and crept into another. – Henry Rollins
380. Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. – Will Durant
381. I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context. – Gordon B. Hinckley
382. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. – Albert Einstein
383. Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. – Isaac Newton
384. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God. – Joyce Meyer
385. Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music. – Jimi Hendrix
386. The truth is, I’m just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life. – Edmund Hillary
387. An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. – William Hazlitt
388. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
389. There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. – Marie Curie
390. For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. – Aristotle
391. Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf
392. In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. – William Osler
393. If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle
394. Truth is, I’ve spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas. – Molly Ivins
395. What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? – Henry Miller
396. Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. – Aesop
397. There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying. – Josh Billings
398. Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
399. Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same. – Blaise Pascal
400. A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. – Walter Scott
401. Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other. – Benjamin E. Mays
402. Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. – Albert Einstein
403. We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. – William James
404. I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth. – Gore Vidal
405. When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
406. Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there’s an exchange of ideas. – Willem Dafoe
407. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle
408. The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. – Robert H. Schuller
409. I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination. – John Keats
410. When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle
411. The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. – Norman Schwarzkopf
412. The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. – J. K. Rowling
413. Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. – George Lucas
414. If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. – Horace Mann
415. I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. – Hans Eysenck
416. Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive. – Ravi Zacharias
417. Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. – George Bernard Shaw
418. People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. – Andy Rooney
419. Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. – Blaise Pascal
420. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. – Alan Watts
421. The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now. – Phil McGraw
422. Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. – John Milton
423. The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. – Hannah Arendt
424. He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. – Thomas Jefferson
425. So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
426. Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. – Lord Byron
427. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
428. There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’ – Abraham Lincoln
429. Death comes in a flash, and that’s the truth of it, the person’s gone in less than 24 frames of film. – Martin Scorsese
430. The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. – Charles Lamb
431. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. – Oscar Wilde
432. The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. – David Bowie
433. My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it. – Whitney Houston
434. It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. – Jerome K. Jerome
435. Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. – Miguel de Cervantes
436. Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. – Anne Lamott
437. The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. – Robert Green Ingersoll
438. A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. – Quentin Tarantino
439. Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. – Leo Tolstoy
440. If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. – E. O. Wilson
441. No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. – Henry David Thoreau
442. It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. – John Locke
443. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. – Thomas Carlyle
444. A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. – Joseph Addison
445. It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. – Edgar Allan Poe
446. We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. – Denis Diderot
447. I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it. – Jose Antonio Vargas
448. Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. – John Stuart Mill
449. Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. – Clarence Darrow
450. If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai Stevenson I
451. The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. – Winston Churchill
452. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. – Buddha
453. I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me. – Simone de Beauvoir
454. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. – Albert Camus
455. Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
456. Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. – Friedrich Nietzsche
457. The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT. – Noam Chomsky
458. Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art – or almost the only stuff. – D. H. Lawrence
459. 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. – Michel de Montaigne
460. The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see. – Hillary Clinton
461. The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. – Anatole France
462. I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job. – Samuel Goldwyn
463. Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. – Winston Churchill
464. People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies. – Don Miguel Ruiz
465. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. – Mark Twain
466. Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. – William Cullen Bryant
467. My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. – Mahatma Gandhi
468. I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. – Shakira
469. I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me. – Moliere
470. What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. – Boris Pasternak
471. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather
472. The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. – George Bernard Shaw
473. But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. – Thomas Paine
474. Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life. – Joyce Meyer
475. Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn’t matter what you believe. – Ricky Gervais
476. Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. – William Shakespeare
477. Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. – Ambrose Bierce
478. The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. – Eminem
479. Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. – Miguel de Cervantes
480. The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. – Alfred Adler
481. It shows the truth – that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. – Sarah Silverman
482. All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. – Bruce Lee
483. Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. – Arthur Conan Doyle
484. Truth is, I love everyone that is a good person regardless of what they look like, walk like, or who they love. – Doja Cat
485. We are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. – Charles Stanley
486. How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. – Albert Camus
487. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. – H. L. Mencken
488. Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. – Samuel Butler
489. We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill
490. New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. – Kurt Vonnegut
491. You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you. – Jordan Peterson
492. He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright. – Blaise Pascal
493. You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people. – John Lewis
494. To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. – H. P. Lovecraft
495. Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I’m an Irish man. – Conor McGregor
496. Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. – Mahatma Gandhi
497. The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. – Jeremy Bentham
498. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. – Albert Einstein
499. In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. – Samuel Johnson
500. To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. – Charles Darwin
501. Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship. – Pope Francis
502. Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
503. The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. – Richard Dawkins
504. Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. – Ovid
505. Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end. – Kris Kristofferson
506. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. – Albert Einstein
507. I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they’re running the asylum. – Robert De Niro
508. The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. – Niels Bohr
509. The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. – Virginia Woolf
510. If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. – Epictetus
511. Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal
512. It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson
513. There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist. – Margaret Atwood
514. God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. – Mahatma Gandhi
515. Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand. – Khalil Gibran
516. Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. – Rabindranath Tagore
517. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen
518. When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. – Eric Hoffer
519. I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes. – Henry Kissinger
520. Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. – Warren Bennis
521. There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth. – Thomas S. Monson
522. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill
523. Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
524. An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. – Mahatma Gandhi
525. I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want. – Muhammad Ali
526. The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. – Oprah Winfrey
527. It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. – Robert Browning
528. Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. – William Butler Yeats
529. The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy. – Robert Kennedy
530. I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking. – Charles Krauthammer
531. It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. – Friedrich Nietzsche
532. We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down… I’m not going to go anywhere. – Maxine Waters
533. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. – Khalil Gibran
534. You have to tell each other the truth, you cannot be nice and happy when we want to achieve so much as a team and a club. – Virgil van Dijk
535. He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy. – Dayananda Saraswati
536. I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
537. Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. – Francis Bacon
538. Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins. – Joel Osteen
539. Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. – Richard Dawkins
540. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth. – River Phoenix
541. I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. – William Butler Yeats
542. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. – Chanakya
543. Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. – Confucius
544. The truth is – and this is corny – I fall more in love with Portia all the time. I really do. She surprises me all the time. – Ellen DeGeneres
545. Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. – Simone de Beauvoir
546. The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny. – Joel Osteen
547. Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves. – Joyce Meyer
548. What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. – Boris Pasternak
549. Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. – Henry David Thoreau
550. There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
551. Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. – H. L. Mencken
552. We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. – Carl Jung
553. Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
554. 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. – Tom Waits
555. As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. – Boris Pasternak
556. A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. – John Calvin
557. Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson
558. It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle
559. Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. – James Thurber
560. Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. – Anais Nin
561. For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. – Patrick Henry
562. All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
563. In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. – Buddha
564. The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count. – Taylor Swift
565. The truth is, through all these years of public service, the ‘service’ part has always come easier to me than the ‘public’ part. – Hillary Clinton
566. I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth. – Ram Dass
567. To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. – Frank Herbert
568. I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth. – Conor McGregor
569. The truth is, I just don’t have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty. – Salma Hayek
570. When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. – William Blake
571. One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. – Blaise Pascal
572. As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection. – Ellen G. White
573. A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy
574. How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? – Arthur Conan Doyle
575. Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. – David Hume
576. The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it. – Donald Rumsfeld
577. The Spirit is as operative today in communicating the gospel to all who seek the truth as it was on the day of Pentecost anciently. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
578. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. – Mitt Romney
579. In ‘Healing the Soul of America,’ I wrote about Gandhi’s notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth. – Marianne Williamson
580. The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. – Simone Weil
581. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. – Rene Descartes
582. Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. – Ronald Reagan
583. Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. – Samuel Johnson
584. It gets embarrassing to say something untrue because you put it online and everyone knows about it, so it’s better to tell the truth. – Prince
585. We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. – Pablo Picasso
586. When I think it’s good not to say the truth, I don’t say anything. I don’t like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me. – Melanie Laurent
587. All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. – Mahatma Gandhi
588. Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. – Virginia Woolf
589. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Khalil Gibran
590. Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. – James Baldwin
591. In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
592. Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. – Publilius Syrus
593. Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. – Khalil Gibran
594. However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
595. The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. – Henry Miller
596. Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. – Shakuntala Devi
597. Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. – Horace Mann
598. There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. – Antisthenes
599. A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker. – Robert Green Ingersoll
600. Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth – about others. – Robert Green Ingersoll
601. I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‘The Truth’. – Terry Pratchett
602. The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say. – Jerry Seinfeld
603. It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now. – Jurgen Klopp
604. The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that. – Rush Limbaugh
605. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. – James Madison
606. The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed. – Joyce Meyer
607. Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. – Jules Verne
608. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. – Arthur Schopenhauer
609. It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. – John Ruskin
610. A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. – Robert Green Ingersoll
611. When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe. – Johnny Depp
612. To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved. – Charles Spurgeon
613. The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs. – Dave Barry
614. The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. – Rabindranath Tagore
615. I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. – Henry David Thoreau
616. Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth. – Robert Green Ingersoll
617. The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. – Joseph Addison
618. One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. – John Locke
619. I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth. – Charlie Chaplin
620. 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. – bell hooks
621. You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you’re cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. – W. Somerset Maugham
622. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. – John F. Kennedy
623. It’s much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That’s the truth. – Oprah Winfrey
624. I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. – William Tecumseh Sherman
625. The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in. – Neil Gaiman
626. There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. – Franz Kafka
627. It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. – Steven Biko
628. In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. – Friedrich Nietzsche
629. Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
630. Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. – William James
631. The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth. – Chanakya
632. You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good. – Kanye West
633. A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone. – Robert Kiyosaki
634. Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth. – Abraham Lincoln
635. I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God. – Anne Lamott
636. Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out. – William F. Buckley, Jr.
637. Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. – Edgar Allan Poe
638. I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else’s. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there’s no truth. – Flannery O’Connor
639. Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
640. To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. – John Locke
641. Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. – Michel Foucault
642. In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. – Albert Einstein
643. Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren’t happening. – Joyce Meyer
644. Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. – Jean de La Fontaine
645. The truth of anything doesn’t matter anymore. What’s right doesn’t matter. What makes economic common sense doesn’t matter. I’m blue in the face over it. – Rush Limbaugh
646. This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
647. The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. – Hannah Arendt
648. I’ll tell you God’s truth: I think that this script that Neil has written – ‘Odd Couple Two,’ I think, is superior to the original one – to the first one. – Jack Lemmon
649. Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
650. I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned. – Richard Dawkins
651. Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. – Ellen DeGeneres
652. We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory. – Don Miguel Ruiz
653. There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek. – Robert Green Ingersoll
654. Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. – Joseph Conrad
655. Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. – Louisa May Alcott
656. Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around. – Jane Goodall
657. The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood. – Jordan Peterson
658. Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
659. 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. – Tom Waits
660. Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
661. Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. – Jane Austen
662. ‘How much longer will I live?’… Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention. – Henri Nouwen
663. Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. – Richard M. Nixon
664. There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth. – Louis Farrakhan
665. I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. – Michel de Montaigne
666. I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. – Abraham Lincoln
667. Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. – H. P. Lovecraft
668. The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant. – Bill Gates
669. I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. – Rodney Dangerfield
670. Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else. – Bob Dylan
671. The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever. – Al Pacino
672. Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves. – Bryant H. McGill
673. Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. – Ismail Haniyeh
674. No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
675. For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle
676. To tell you the truth, I believe everything – tigers, trees, stones – are sentient in one way or another. You’d never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example. – Mary Oliver
677. I think because I was Miss World, and I modeled for a little while, I have – I just like heels, actually. I think that’s the truth. I’m trying to find an excuse. – Priyanka Chopra
678. We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. – Friedrich Nietzsche
679. In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. – Thomas Jefferson
680. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. – Carl Jung
681. Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. – Simone de Beauvoir
682. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
683. I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. – Mahatma Gandhi
684. The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth. – James Allen
685. Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth. – Shel Silverstein
686. Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. – Friedrich Nietzsche
687. Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. – W. Clement Stone
688. Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. – Simone Weil
689. A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. – Baltasar Gracian
690. He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
691. I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway. – Kris Kristofferson
692. I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. – Thomas Jefferson
693. The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now. – Wayne Dyer
694. Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
695. There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress. – Andrew Young
696. Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. – Swami Vivekananda
697. And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. – Friedrich Nietzsche
698. The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. – Soren Kierkegaard
699. There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. – Vaclav Havel
700. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. – H. L. Mencken
701. Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty. – James D. Watson
702. Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. – Elie Wiesel
703. I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. – Audre Lorde
704. Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. – Ambrose Bierce
705. The truth is I’ve been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes. – Spike Lee
706. But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. – Lord Byron
707. Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. – Aesop
708. If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. – James Madison
709. There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs. – William Osler
710. The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity. – Herbert Hoover
711. In ’85, I went through rehab and I wasn’t ready. If you’re not ready, you’re not ready. You don’t want to hear the truth, and you’re gonna keep doing what you keep doing. – Nikki Sixx
712. In documentaries, there’s a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out. – Ava DuVernay
713. Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. – Nikola Tesla
714. Photography is usually viewed as a solitary activity, but the truth of the matter is that people love to shoot together, compare notes, and just have fun with photography. – Scott Kelby
715. Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. – Samuel Johnson
716. The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. – Thomas Merton
717. I sit with people who are dying. I’m one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they’re dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth. – Ram Dass
718. Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality. – Linus Pauling
719. Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it. – Bryant H. McGill
720. It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson
721. Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. – William Penn
722. What is truth? Truth doesn’t really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. – Tracey Emin
723. Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. – Virginia Woolf
724. Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. – D. H. Lawrence
725. Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. – Albert Schweitzer
726. If I’m talking about girls and stuff, it’s usually the truth. So now, you know, if you hear my songs, you are gonna appreciate it differently because usually, it’s the truth. – Lil Uzi Vert
727. It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility. – Saint Teresa of Avila
728. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. – H. L. Mencken
729. The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start. – Joyce Meyer
730. To tell the truth, I’d join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn’t join a band with Paul McCartney, but it’s nothing personal. It’s just from a musical point of view. – George Harrison
731. The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God’s identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it’s the truth. – Anne Lamott
732. We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
733. We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
734. That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. – Denis Waitley
735. When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth. – Eartha Kitt
736. Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don’t like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this – it hurts too much. – Donald Trump
737. We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth – then it’s far too late when they pass away. – George Harrison
738. You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth. – Jane Fonda
739. I don’t think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, ‘I’m anti-woman.’ They don’t see themselves that way, and you can’t treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth. – Venus Williams
740. 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. – Christopher Columbus
741. The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. – Nikola Tesla
742. There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. – John Ruskin
743. I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai Stevenson I
744. Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? – Marcel Duchamp
745. It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. – George Santayana
746. One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. – Albert Schweitzer
747. Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it’s all right. We’re scared that if the truth comes out that it’s not all right. It’s the other way around. – Yoko Ono
748. One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won. – Bryant H. McGill
749. There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking. – Bill Gates
750. Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. – William James
751. It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. – Ezra Taft Benson
752. I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way. – Steve Martin
753. The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy. – Pope Benedict XVI
754. Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. – Thomas Moore
755. You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that’s not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress. – Bernie Sanders
756. Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor. – Coco Chanel
757. If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours. – Joyce Meyer
758. Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. – Simone Weil
759. 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. – Alice Walker
760. Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in. – Harry S Truman
761. My truth is I am gay and out, and if I can’t do that in my music, then I don’t need it. Fortunately, I do feel like there is a movement against homophobia, and I hope to be part of that. – Billy Porter
762. To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can’t compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference. – Roman Abramovich
763. I’m supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I’ve flunked more often than not. I’m very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don’t understand them. – Frank Sinatra
764. On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. – Friedrich Nietzsche
765. There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell. – Joyce Meyer
766. Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. – Jim Morrison
767. Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world. – J. R. R. Tolkien
768. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. – C. S. Lewis
769. Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
770. You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. – William Butler Yeats
771. Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy. – H. P. Lovecraft
772. The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. – John Stuart Mill
773. Every Republican is on record as saying Obamacare is unacceptable, intolerable, and they’re gonna do everything they could to keep it from happening. But, at the moment of truth, they’re not. – Rush Limbaugh
774. This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it’s a part of live entertainment. – Eartha Kitt
775. We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. – Gore Vidal
776. President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history. – Mitt Romney
777. What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane. – Noam Chomsky
778. Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton
779. The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. – Michelle Obama
780. We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square. – Michelle Obama
781. The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. – John Locke
782. I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ. – Joyce Meyer
783. When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth! – Don Miguel Ruiz
784. It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. – Friedrich Nietzsche
785. Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty. – Robert Green Ingersoll
786. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who’s number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. – Tom Hanks
787. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. – William Osler
788. How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ! – Pope Benedict XVI
789. A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck
790. It’s a journalist’s job to be a witness to history. We’re not there to worry about ourselves. We’re there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out. – Robert Fisk
791. I’ll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you’re actually doing things for truth’s sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you’re harmonizing with a greater power. – George Harrison
792. The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
793. I am aware that a philosopher’s ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. – Nicolaus Copernicus
794. I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life. – Dayananda Saraswati
795. The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. – Thomas Aquinas
796. For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. – Maya Angelou
797. In assisting his ‘neighbour’ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God. – Robert Baden-Powell
798. I’ve been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I’m quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I’m one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. – T. E. Lawrence
799. I’ve made so many films in New York. There was an assumption I think a lot of people had that I am a New Yorker, that I am from New York, and I always felt like nothing could be further from the truth. – Greta Gerwig
800. Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
801. All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together. – Morihei Ueshiba
802. It doesn’t benefit me to lie to people. They’re eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That’s the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies. – Rush Limbaugh
803. The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. – Jim Rohn
804. It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. – Aldous Huxley
805. Wonder Woman, she’s amazing. I love everything that she represents and everything that she stands for. She’s all about love and compassion and truth and justice and equality, and she’s a whole lot of woman. – Gal Gadot
806. Marilyn Monroe wasn’t even her real name, Charles Manson isn’t his real name, and now, I’m taking that to be my real name. But what’s real? You can’t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. – Marilyn Manson
807. The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man’s testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce. – Robert Green Ingersoll
808. Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you’re playing a tender love story that’s set in a coffee shop or whether you’re in ‘The Avengers,’ which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding. – Tom Hiddleston
809. I don’t want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him – who knows what’s true? But it’s great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth. – Kit Harington
810. The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights. – Charles Spurgeon
811. A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world. – Willie Nelson
812. I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. – Jesus Christ
813. I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. – Orson Welles
814. There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. – Bette Davis
815. A lot of young people don’t have a lot of faith in politicians. You can’t depend on what they say. They talk in circles. They don’t speak the kind of language that has truth to them. I’m speaking differently. – Maxine Waters
816. The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. – Joseph Conrad
817. It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. – Henry Ward Beecher
818. The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. – Tony Robbins
819. There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way. – Henry Rollins
820. I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That’s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. – Chuck Palahniuk
821. I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules. – Ellen DeGeneres
822. Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. – Don Miguel Ruiz
823. 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
824. Sometimes when you get in this game, you think that you’re going to take off if you do a song with someone big. But that’s not the truth. Everything with you got to be good – the visual, the push, the production. – Gunna
825. I made it real clear to the business community – if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you’re right: I’m going to be right in the way. – Elizabeth Warren
826. If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. – Ezra Pound
827. All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided. – Maya Angelou
828. A lot of guys go, ‘Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.’ I tell ’em, ‘I don’t know any.’ They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know. – Yogi Berra
829. I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It’s – but it all goes back to ‘Mary Tyler Moore,’ ‘Golden Girls,’ all those – actors love to take the credit. We couldn’t do it without the writers. – Betty White
830. We are living in a global world – but most schools and books still tell us only parochial histories of one particular country or culture. The truth is that there are no longer any independent countries in the world. – Yuval Noah Harari
831. The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth. – Lady Gaga
832. In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more. – Matthew McConaughey
833. Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one’s enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one’s friends. – Joseph Conrad
834. The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth – it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles. – Willem Dafoe
835. I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. – Reinhold Niebuhr
836. I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That’s just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It’s just a fact. – Tom Hanks
837. The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. – Arthur Schopenhauer
838. In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth. – Don Miguel Ruiz
839. Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it. – Tacitus
840. When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. – Lao Tzu
841. The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking. – Wayne Dyer
842. We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive. – David Mamet
843. ‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us. – Brene Brown
844. A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
845. Let every mother realize that she has no greater blessing than the children who have come to her as a gift from the Almighty; that she has no greater mission than to rear them in light and truth, in understanding and love. – Gordon B. Hinckley
846. The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
847. It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement. – Horace
848. Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. – Carl von Clausewitz
849. It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. – Maya Angelou
850. I’m a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn’t change things. – Ricky Gervais
851. In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. – Michael Musto
852. I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me. – Maya Angelou
853. We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of. – Phil McGraw
854. Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth. – Ravi Zacharias
855. Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and homemaking. – Dennis Prager
856. I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe. – Jane Goodall
857. There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. – Ida Tarbell
858. Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it’s a mode of observation. – Deepak Chopra
859. Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals. – Jocko Willink
860. Some people erroneously believe that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members are not Christian. We have difficulty understanding why anyone could accept and promote an idea that is so far from the truth. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
861. To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who’s your real friend? It’s the person who tells you the truth. That’s who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that. – Bill Maher
862. Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home. – Dennis Prager
863. It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
864. The essential truth is that sometimes you’re worried that they’ll find out it’s a fluke, that you don’t really have it. You’ve lost the muse or – the worst dread – you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on. – Robin Williams
865. If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. – H. P. Lovecraft
866. I don’t think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can’t do that until you’re 85, and I don’t want to live that long. I’ve always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way. – Lucille Ball
867. Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession. – Herbert Hoover
868. ‘A People’s History of the United States’ was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt like my mind was really blown by it. I think the truth is I read it because it’s referenced in ‘Good Will Hunting.’ – Greta Gerwig
869. Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. – Albert Camus
870. There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. – Anais Nin
871. War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed. – Bayard Rustin
872. I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach. – Jimmy Carter
873. That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. – Abraham Lincoln
874. Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. – John Burroughs
875. Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel. – Margaret Atwood
876. All I needed to do was sing with conviction, speaking my truth from the heart, honestly and straightforwardly, and to offer my words, ideas and music to the audience as if it were one collective friend that I’d known for a very long time. – Carole King
877. Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm. – Louis Farrakhan
878. Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. – Friedrich Nietzsche
879. In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe. – Robert Kennedy
880. Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler. – Jordan Peterson
881. Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. – Blaise Pascal
882. Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
883. But the truth of the matter is, we’re an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That’s why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil. – Condoleezza Rice
884. I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It’s the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report. – Rush Limbaugh
885. We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II. – Warren Buffett
886. So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. – Nicolaus Copernicus
887. Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. – Maya Angelou
888. There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. – William Hazlitt
889. A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. – Viktor E. Frankl
890. If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. – Maimonides
891. I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps. – Jane Fonda
892. A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. – Robert Green Ingersoll
893. When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God’s hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold. – Ravi Zacharias
894. If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. – Hunter S. Thompson
895. Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I’d done ‘Reservoir Dogs,’ and I was very beside myself. – Quentin Tarantino
896. Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone’s anything. If he’s telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you? – Henry Rollins
897. The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. – Brene Brown
898. Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came. – Adlai Stevenson I
899. In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster. – Molly Ivins
900. Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. – Christopher Hitchens
901. We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me – especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and ‘religious’ countries. – Richard Rohr
902. Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life. – Jordan Peterson
903. It’s a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty. – Pope Benedict XVI
904. I don’t think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of. – Leonardo DiCaprio
905. I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words – and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. – Sidney Poitier
906. I’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‘You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.’ – Maya Angelou
907. I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home. – Jackie Robinson
908. Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit. – Paramahansa Yogananda
909. I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‘The Big Trail’ had been a success and launched me as a star. – John Wayne
910. In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if you are a Communist, then therefore you are an anti-American person and a person who is not a patriot. But nothing is further from the truth. – Michael Eric Dyson
911. I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‘This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.’ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. – Ronald Reagan
912. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
913. When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country – but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public. – DeRay Mckesson
914. Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet. – Richard P. Feynman
915. A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself. – James Allen
916. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. – Aldous Huxley
917. Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville
918. We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy
919. The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn’t have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself. – Sonia Sotomayor
920. When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then – and not until then – will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth. – Robert Green Ingersoll
921. 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. – Ben Shapiro
922. 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. – Pope Benedict XVI
923. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Khalil Gibran
924. Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
925. When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth. – Don Miguel Ruiz
926. It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. – Arthur Schopenhauer
927. The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story. – Keanu Reeves
928. Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is. – Don Miguel Ruiz
929. I can say, ‘Well, I’m a male. I’m a male human. I’m a medical doctor. I’m an author…’ If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, ‘I am a soul. I am a spirit.’ If I go into science, I will say, ‘I am energy. I am light.’ But the truth is I have no idea what I am. – Don Miguel Ruiz
930. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. – C. S. Lewis
931. I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I. – Barack Obama
932. I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts. – Steve Harvey
933. The foolish man conceives the idea of ‘self.’ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‘self;’ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain. – Buddha
934. I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I’ve argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I’ve been a radical for a long time. I guess it’s too bad. I’d be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it. – Kris Kristofferson
935. After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory. – Charles Spurgeon
936. Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God. – Joyce Meyer
937. Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they’re seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn’t that they don’t want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth. – Marianne Williamson
938. Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don’t forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It’s like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain’t right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach. – Prince
939. If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth. – Ellen G. White
940. For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us. – Noam Chomsky
941. The truth is that transitioning to clean energy like wind and solar will create millions of new, good jobs that can’t be outsourced, and spur economic growth – all while avoiding the inevitable, significant damages our economy will suffer should we keep building more pipelines. – Tom Steyer
942. I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood. – Joyce Meyer
943. In Israel, there’s a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you’ve got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you’re in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that. – Henry Rollins
944. When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It’s interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish’s can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo. – Norman Schwarzkopf
945. I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton
946. The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain promise that we will penalize them when they do? Or will we commit to keeping our children safe from brutality and victimization? – Greg Boyle
947. An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them. – Pope Francis
948. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton
949. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
950. Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. – Charles Stanley
951. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. – Malcolm X
952. Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. – Deepak Chopra
953. The influence of ‘Hidden Fortress’ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people. – George Lucas
954. The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities. – Aristotle
955. If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties. – Isaac Newton
956. I am the Doctor of Democracy. I am America’s Truth Detector. And as the Doctor of Democracy, the deal you have with your doctor isn’t changing. You get to keep your doctor. You get to keep your plan. You get to keep your station. Nothing’s changing, and it really never was gonna change. – Rush Limbaugh
957. A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons. – Isabel Allende
958. The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men’s minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy. – Paramahansa Yogananda
959. The happy medium – truth in all things – is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
960. For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself. – Deepak Chopra
961. Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion. – Pope Benedict XVI
962. I detest jokes – when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn’t know it’s funny or doesn’t treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it’s a sort of rage against society. – Johnny Depp
963. The Lord gave me ‘Sojourner,’ because I was to travel up an’ down the land, showin’ the people their sins an’ bein’ a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name ’cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me ‘Truth,’ because I was to declare the truth to people. – Sojourner Truth
964. Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct. – Noam Chomsky
965. The women’s movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life. – Anne Lamott
966. I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet. – Benjamin Franklin
967. I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, and I was nominated for an Academy Award. My head got inflated. My friends were the real ones who said, ‘You’re acting different.’ But the truth is that I don’t need that, because I don’t get out of hand. – Leonardo DiCaprio
968. I don’t know if I’m selfless – I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that’s not completely selfless. But the truth is I’m not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That’s always been how I am. – Lady Gaga
969. My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy. – Edna St. Vincent Millay
970. If I go into a studio and find my truth of the moment, there are a number of people in the world who can relate to what I’m saying and are going to buy into what I’m doing. Not because it’s the new thing of the moment, but because it’s genuine emotion. Its how I feel. This is how I articulate the world. – Jay-Z
971. I have very little fashion sense, and to tell you the truth, I give it very little thought. I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can. Most of my clothing is either black, grey, or dark blue, and I don’t really wear a lot of colours. But I do like jackets. I have a little bit of an obsession with them. – Leonardo DiCaprio
972. Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. – P. T. Barnum
973. We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. – Carl Jung
974. There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it’s called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally. – Robert H. Schuller
975. Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. – Anne Lamott
976. What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love. – Lady Gaga
977. I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that’s it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don’t leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility. – Michael J. Fox
978. Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I’ve seen again and again. – Ravi Zacharias
979. When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: ‘Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.’ ‘I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.’ – William Wallace
980. I don’t mind what people say about me as long as it’s an opinion or the truth. If someone says, ‘He’s the worst comedian in the world,’ that’s fine. If someone says, ‘His face makes me want to punch the TV,’ that’s fine. But if they say, ‘Oh, and I know for a fact he hunts squirrels,’ I go: no, no, no… that’s a lie. – Ricky Gervais
981. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
982. Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can’t blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to ‘speak truth to power’ to Robert Mugabe. – P. J. O’Rourke
983. The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead – no defile that has no outlet – it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty. – Orison Swett Marden
984. My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‘Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?’ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career. – Michelle Obama
985. 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. – Haile Selassie
986. I believe that hunger for a ‘lost dimension’ of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn’t go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the ‘Harry Potter’ books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth. – Marianne Williamson
987. 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. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
988. It’s very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I’m able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story – responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods. – Johnny Depp
989. I think public intellectuals have a responsibility – to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence. – Michael Eric Dyson
990. With the Internet era and social media and politics being so out there with the lies, now you’ve got people denying things they’re on camera doing, and then you’ve got people not really caring about the truth. You’ve got people supporting people who’ve done horrific things, but just don’t want the other side to get any satisfaction. – Ricky Gervais
991. If you see voters as rational, you’ll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence. – Scott Adams
992. My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. – Anne Lamott
993. The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. – Jose Rizal
994. We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another. – Jordan Peterson
995. As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind’s nature is to remain pure like ether. – Ramana Maharshi
996. Truth is, I’ll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. – Tom Hanks
997. We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. – Wendell Berry
998. I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth – the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture. – Gordon B. Hinckley
999. There’s basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I’m using a bunch of lies that I’ve made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I’m using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized. – Isabel Allende
1000. That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together. – Jordan Peterson