Truth Is Quotes

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Henry Louis Gates

History, Truth, Black

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
Michael Musto

Truth, Nothing, Whole

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
Simone Weil

Time, Truth, Long

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
Rush Limbaugh

Power, Truth, Forget

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James Madison

Men, Power, Truth

The color of truth is gray.
Andre Gide

Truth, Color, Gray

All truth is not to be told at all times.
Samuel Butler

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel

Truth, Words, Memories

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth, Doubt, Indefinite

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

Truth, Strange, Stranger

Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner Truth

Truth, Powerful, Prevails

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
David Bowie

Time, Truth, Same

Defending 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 Beauvoir

Truth, Sense, Guilt

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr

Great, Truth, Technology

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
William Hazlitt

Truth, Few, Ourselves

The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Tertullian

Truth, Hatred, Reaction

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Thomas Huxley

Life, Strength, Truth

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
Hypatia

Men, Truth, Fight

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

Truth, Free, Makes

Too much truth is uncouth.
Franklin P. Adams

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
Dave Barry

Men, Truth, Cool

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
Thomas Huxley

Truth, Sure, Mankind

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings

Truth, Demand, Excess

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton

Time, Truth, Enemy

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
Javier Bardem

Truth, Live, Denial

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andre Maurois

Truth, Pure, Poison

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
June Jordan

Love, Truth, Beautiful

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
Bob Schieffer

Christmas, Truth, Long

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand

Great, Truth, Fight

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia Woolf

Women, Truth, Often

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