Truth Quotes

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

Lisa Scottoline

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Martha Beck

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

Mark Frost

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

Michael Pena

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fa...

Matisyahu

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

Oliver Ellsworth

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Oliver North

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Patrick Kavanagh

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Plato

The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really goo...

Patrick Stewart

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Petrarch

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

Roman Abramovich

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

Roseanne Barr

The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it's much easier to scare 'em again because they're using two sides of their emotions. It's much easier to set them up for a good cheap thrill scare again.

Robert Englund

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

Roy Orbison

I would often get called in to play a very loud, obnoxious - which, truth be told, I can be loud and obnoxious. My issue was when it was like a ghetto girl; I didn't think I was good at it; I didn't feel authentic. And so I had insecurities about goi...

Retta

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Richard Whately

Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn't true.

Robert Winston

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Sophocles

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle