Quotes of: Truth-is Keyword

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.

Armistead Maupin

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Andrei Platonov

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Andy Rooney

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Adam Savage

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

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

Andrew Vachss

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

Burt Bacharach

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

Bryant H. McGill

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

Barbra Streisand

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

David Blaine

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Denis Diderot

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Desiderius Erasmus

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

Dogen

I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.

Daryl Hall

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Dana Rohrabacher

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

Ezra Taft Benson

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

Emanuel Cleaver

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

Ellis Peters