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Quotes About Truth

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.
~ Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
Today's temple of truth will become the prison of tomorrow.
~ William Meader
Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.
~ Hugo Grotius
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.
~ Dean Ornish
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
~ Dorothy Parker
Sanity is a cozy lie.
~ Susan Sontag
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
~ Anne Sullivan Macy
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
~ William Feather
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.
~ Ban Ki-moon
The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.
~ Frances Perkins
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
~ Carol Gilligan
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
~ Angela Thirkell
I can't figure women out. They put on makeup for three hours. They wear things that make them smaller. Things that make them bigger. Then they meet a man and they want truth.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Men lie, women lie, numbers dont
~ Jay-Z
Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.
~ Alistair Begg
People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.
~ Naomi Wolf
I find that through the study of women, you get to the heart - the truth - of the culture.
~ Shirin Neshat
There's a special place in hell for men who convince women their intuition is insecurity to protect their duplicity.
~ dream hampton
All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.
~ Carolina Herrera
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.
~ Charles Bukowski
[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.
~ Hugh Nibley
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
~ Gustave Flaubert