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Quotes About Truth

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
~ Herman Melville
The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
~ Adam Michnik
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
~ J. M. Coetzee
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
~ Andre Breton
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I believe that being honest to oneself and one's work is all that matters.
~ Barun Sobti
I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.
~ David Rakoff
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
~ Herodotus
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
~ Mark Twain
The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.
~ Dennis Prager
We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words of love. Hate will not save us. Only love.
~ Svetlana Alexievich
There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
~ Patricia Sun
But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there's only one Savior.
~ Tim LaHaye
Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
~ John Ruskin
Everybody has an angle. The only time I say no to an interview is when someone says they don't have an angle. I know right away that that's not honest.
~ Steven Crowder
People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.
~ Sam Shepard
I hold onto the spirit of God for everything, and that works for me. That aspect of my life is very real and is the truth.
~ LaTanya Richardson
If we do have people appearing on the air live that are later found out to be Holocaust deniers or anything like that, we immediately put them onto a list of people who are forbidden from the air.
~ Margarita Simonyan
Sometimes I'm just like, 'I cannot hold onto this anymore,' and it's time to say something. And at the end of the day, I've just got to let it go and be true to myself. Whatever comes out comes out.
~ Goapele
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
~ Albert Einstein
My life is now an open book.
~ Sean Maher
My life is an open book.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
I don't have secrets, my life's an open book.
~ John Cooper Clarke