Truth Quotes

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Maya Angelou

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Maya Angelou

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Maya Angelou

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Maya Angelou

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's t...

Maya Angelou

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

Michael Arrington

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

Minna Antrim

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Minna Antrim

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

Mortimer Adler

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Muhammad Ali

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

Malcolm Bradbury

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

Marcus Brigstocke

I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he could say more with fewer words than anybody. Most of the parables were less than 250 words. And, boy, did he have some one-liners ...

Mark Batterson

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

Martha Beck

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

Mary J. Blige

The truth is, I'm pretty lighthearted.

Matt Berninger

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

Max Born

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

Mel Brooks

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

Mischa Barton