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Quotes About Truth

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.
~ Maya Angelou
My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.
~ Maya Angelou
Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.
~ Meg Greenfield
I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.
~ Meredith Brooks
The lie is, even if you do work out, you'll never look like Madonna. That's the lie.
~ Mike Pesca
It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.
~ Noam Chomsky
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.
~ Rebecca West
It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.
~ Rick Perlstein
Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.
~ Rick Riordan
Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
~ Scott Westerfeld
We work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish.
~ Seth Klarman
Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.
~ Thomas Paine
Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.
~ Tracy Morgan
I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.
~ Tupac Shakur
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
~ Umberto Eco
Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.
~ William Gilmore Simms
My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.
~ William Styron
A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
~ Yann Martel
Expressing truth is hard work.
~ Timothy Noah
I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
~ Madeline Kahn
Whatever you do needs a true you.
~ Auliq-Ice