I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
Eugene IonescoTravesty of the truth [on reports he thinks people can't rise above their station]
Prince CharlesSelf-truth is the essence of heroism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson'Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.'
Michael JacksonThis story is about truth, beauty, freedom; but above all things, this story is about love
Moulin RougeIt is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Henry L MenckenDefending 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 BeauvoirThe society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the centre of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
Albert CamusEverything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Albert Schweitzer All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur SchopenhauerBe not so bigoted to any custom as to worship at the expense of truth
Johann Georg Von ZimmermannThey say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.
George ClooneyBetween 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 JohnsonWhere all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John LockeIf someone asks me a question, there might be a truthful answer and a correct answer.
Tim HenmanEvery legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James BaldwinIt is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamour raised by heated partisans.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller We 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 DawkinsBut what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord ByronCompetence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. - The Peter Principle
Laurence PeterIn 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 GandhiAnother possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.
Dave BarryCynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian HellmanBut the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Albert PikeExactitude is not truth
Henri MatisseTruth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
Mary ClarkThe great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Dorothy L SayersTruth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines. (Discussions on Philosophy)
Sir William HamiltonA subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac AsimovIs there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely. [Doesn't really tell you much!]
Jeff GannonI'll go on Oprah with Lindsay and do a live lie-detector test. That'll prove who's telling the truth. [Wanting to prove he slept with Lindsay Lohan]
Harry JuddHow can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusThe 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 StreisandEvery scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
Louis AgassizThere 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 NinFor thirty years people have been asking me how I reconcile X with Y! The truthful answer is that I don't. Everything about me is a contradiction and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them
Orson WellesBy means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth
Yukio MishimaThe finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAn exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. (Sand and Farm)
Kahlil GibranBut now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto EcoWe should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.
Christy TurlingtonWhat is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris PasternakChristianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.
Abbott E KittredgeIn truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
Sir John LubbockThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James Madison'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' —that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John KeatsWhen virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao TzuI 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 NewtonYou shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
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