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Quotes About Truth

The truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win. That our better angels sometimes — often! — win instead, in spite of all odds, is another truth of The Shining. And thank God it is.
~ Stephen King, 2001
Ruth is Truth
~ Internet meme
It is forbidden to tell anything that has no foundation.
~ Kanuri proverb
Every shut-eye ain't sleep and every good-bye ain't gone.
~ African-American proverb
And 't is a strange truth that only in the agony of parting we look into the depths of love.
~ George Eliot, Felix Holt, 1866
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of good beer.
~ Author Unknown
You know, America celebrating for Washington — a man who was so truthful — seems kinder sacrilegious. A lot of lying Americans get together and celebrate. Americans celebrating a truthful man's birthday always reminds me of a snake charmer celebrating St. Patrick's Day.
~ Will Rogers (1879–1935)
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
~ Stephen King, "The Body," 1982
Criminal Minds, False Flag: "When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Criminal Minds, Believer: "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
~ Oscar Wilde
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1872
All we can see is reality filtered with self.
~ Terri Guillemets, "View," 1991
There are always three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth.
~ Author Unknown
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
~ Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. The theory that, since the sky rockets following a wallop in the eye are optical delusions, the wallop itself is a delusion and the eye another.
~ H. L. Mencken
We are dying to-day from ignorance, not from knowledge...
~ Lemuel K. Washburn, 1911
I dare to be honest, and I fear no labour.
~ Robert Burns, 1789
Adversity is the first path to truth...
~ Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819
Life is but shadow. Only you, my Beloved, are more real than shadow.
~ Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff
Scorpios speak five languages — English, Profanity, Sarcasm, Truth, and Love.
~ Internet meme
Scorpios are human lie detectors.
~ Internet meme
Scorpios are seekers of truth and hardworking, though they can easily be diverted. They are believed to be secretive, and it is felt that no one person is ever aware of the many sides of a Scorpio friend, lover, or child.
~ Marion McCue, 1977
A Scorpio will tell you the truth even if you can't handle it.
~ Internet meme
Maybe our stories aren't simply about suffering. And maybe life isn't separated neatly in to chapters. Maybe joy and heartache bleed together, spilling out in to the binding of each page. Because even when heartache doesn't have a clear beginning and end, we can be certain that neither does love, goodness, and joy. And maybe that is life and the truth of our stories; they aren't one thing or another. They are a glorious mess of it all.
~ Lexi Behrndt