Truth Quotes

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

Gottfried Leibniz

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

Greg Lake

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

George McGovern

The well of true wit is truth itself.

George Meredith

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

George Michael

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

George R. R. Martin

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

Grace Napolitano

There is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Gregory Nunn

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

George Oppen

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

George Orwell

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

George Orwell

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

George Dennison Prentice

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by wh...

George William Russell

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Gary Sheffield

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

George Bernard Shaw

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

George Santayana

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana

I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?

George Saunders

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Gerrit Smith