Quotes About Truth

What is left when honor is lost?

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.

You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

One truth I know for sure is that I am so blessed in my life.

It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

You can't live a truthful life without regret.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.