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Quotes About Truth

He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God's word or man's, is himself unrenewed at heart.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
~ Martha Beck
Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.
~ Voltaire
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.
~ Abel Hermant
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
~ David Halberstam
What love lays bare in me is energy.
~ Roland Barthes
Only the free mind knows what Love is.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri
~ Richelle Mead
Only by love is life made real.
~ Sara Teasdale
...if I need to apologize for misrepresenting God's love I'd rather apologize for overstating His love than for understating it.
~ Steve McVey
That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.
~ Glen Duncan
The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.
~ Marian Seldes
Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!
~ Olive Schreiner
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.
~ bell hooks
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
~ E. W. Howe
Whenever you're in doubt about any action, ask yourself: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind? You can also ask, what would love do now?
~ Harold Klemp
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
~ Henry David Thoreau
True liars never love. True lovers never lie.
~ Jeffree Star
I love advertising because I love lying.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
~ John Dryden
We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.
~ Joyce Grenfell
If anything needs love it is reality, for it is reality that lacks it the most - I doubt that it was ever loved.
~ Kiki Dimoula