Truth Quotations | Page 2

The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.

Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people.

Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.

The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.

I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger.

Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.

The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That's the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

The truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall.

So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

The truth is I have had, for whatever reason, several movie-star boyfriends,

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective and from being internal to external,

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.

I didn't want to be an actress when I was younger - not even when I was older, to tell you the truth.

Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Sometimes people don't like me because I'm too honest; I speak the truth.

Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

The only way people can really be excellent is with truth, so you have to have a CFO who will have the intellectual capacity and conviction to tell you you're wrong and try to support that with data.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.

I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated.

A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed.

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

Show me any health professional - great and not so great - who says they don't make mistakes or haven't made one in years, and I'll show you someone who has trouble admitting the truth.

Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.

Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.