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Quotes About Truth

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.
~ Jacob Collier
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
~ Octavio Paz
I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.
~ Paul Mooney
The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.
~ Frank Abagnale
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
~ Sun Myung Moon
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
~ Jane Porter
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
~ Igor Stravinsky
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
~ Francis Bacon
They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.
~ Steve Earle
Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.
~ Gwen Ifill
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
'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.
~ Michael Palin
The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great actors have been and are exhibitionists.
~ Leslie Howard
The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
~ Ralph Macchio
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
~ Carl Reiner
People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The truth is I was suffering from bipolar disorder. It went on for 18 months, during which I changed four doctors, the medication wasn't working on me, and crazy things were happening.
~ Yo Yo Honey Singh
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The truth is we're all searching. We're all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I'm by no means someone to follow.
~ Jason Momoa
I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple.
~ Jeannette Walls
The truth is that 'The Jerusalem Post' is the most credible newspaper in Israel.
~ Moshe Kahlon
What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
~ Clifford D. Simak
The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.
~ Tessa Thompson