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Quotes About Truth

Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth to them who have believed the slander.
~ Maximus the Confessor
I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
What we live by we die by.
~ Robert Frost
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth
~ Alan K. Simpson
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
~ Alexander Pope
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
~ Barbara Jordan
We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.
~ Byron Katie
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
~ William Shakespeare
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
~ Anais Nin
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
~ Clinton D. McKinnon
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
~ J. K. Rowling
There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.
~ Leonard Barnes
Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.
~ Meher Baba
Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.
~ Sonia Johnson
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
~ Thomas More
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
~ Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
~ Bono
It's time to diet and exercise when you accept the fact that you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but not while you're wearing a bathing suit.
~ Gene Perret
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.
~ Hermann Hesse
Photography is truth.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
If you're going to affirm something, affirm the truth. Then go do something about it.
~ Jim Rohn