Quotes About Truth

I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity

A prostitute is a decent worker like the rest of us, only she can't fake what she is doing.

I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

All know the way few actually walk it.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

Words that do not match deeds are not important.

If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

A lifetime's work, to try and say one thing that's true.

Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.

Our work is to present things that are as they are.