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Quotes About Truth

The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.
~ Marion Woodman
Life is just a lie with an 'F' in it, and death is definite
~ Sage Francis
If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.
~ Sonja Lyubomirsky
All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
~ Studs Terkel
The only thing you can do through all the scrutiny and just in life in general is be true to yourself.
~ Vanessa Hudgens
God doesn't come to kill, to steal or to destroy. That's the enemy. God comes to give abundant life. Know your God so you don't get confused.
~ Mike Pilavachi
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
~ Charlie Munger
At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.
~ Chris Cleave
Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.
~ Christopher Fry
Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.
~ Eddie Izzard
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...
~ Franz Marc
People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.
~ Johnny Depp
Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.
~ Kate Jacobs
The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.
~ Louis Agassiz
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.
~ Colin Quinn
When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
~ Langston Hughes
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
~ George Santayana
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
~ George Steiner
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
~ Henry Fielding
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
~ Hu Shih
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
~ J. B. Priestley
Believe in the holy contour of life.
~ Jack Kerouac