I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
Wayne BirminghamBut such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas PaineOn Mother's Day: "It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like."
Liz TaylorIf the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra PoundAll truth is not to be told at all times.
Samuel ButlerRespect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Frank HerbertA lie gets round the world before truth has got its boots on.
Alex BirtwistleAny person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity
David HumeIt's really nice that the truth can finally come out.
Vince VaughnA dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John CalvinDo the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
Louisa May AlcottThe victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf HitlerAn aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
Karl KrausI do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Sir Isaac NewtonBeauty is truth, and truth is beauty
John KeatsThe camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
Harold EvansThe truth is that if you have experienced some of those things directly, then you will not flinch or be deterred by many things.
Dorothy GilmanComedy has to be based on truth.
Sid CaesarDefending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Simone De BeauvoirLight is the symbol of truth
James Russell LowellA platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley BaldwinFiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen KingWe know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise PascalTruth is the glue that holds government together.
Gerald FordThe audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
Barbra StreisandI don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth - even if it costs him his job
Samuel GoldwynFear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Umberto EcoI don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about their closest friends. Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
Tom HanksWe are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
Richard DawkinsTruth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
William PennIf any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Horace MannThere is no truth. There is only perception.
Gustav FlaubertA woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty
Friedrich NietzscheThe first casualty when war comes is truth (speech, 1917)
Hiram JohnsonThis suggestion that we're some kind of megalomaniacs is so far from the truth that it does annoy me.
Judy FinniganThere is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Daniel WebsterTruth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
Edward GibbonAccuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
Anna Brownell JamesonTruth uttered before its time is always dangerous
MenciusBetween falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel JohnsonA good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
Bruce DavisonTo be persuasive we must be belivable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Ed MurrowI have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
Barbara CartlandReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C S LewisThe greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Julius Charles HareWhen you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil GibranIn the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma GandhiIt is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Kenneth TynanThere are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais NinMankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
William Hazlitt
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