Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
Edward R. Murrow

Music tells no truths.
Philip James Bailey

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.
Jena Malone

No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld.
Rod Parsley

Official truths are often powerful illusions.
John Pilger

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
Mason Cooley

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.
Jimmy Sangster

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Denis Diderot

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
Clive Bell

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
Bruce Catton

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
Samuel P. Huntington

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Philip James Bailey

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
Kary Mullis

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
Sri Aurobindo

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.
John Stockwell

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.
Sherwood Anderson

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
William Hazlitt

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
George Lloyd

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann