Truth Quotes

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.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

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.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

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.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.