Quotes on Truth

Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth.

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.

The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.

The best stories come out of the truth.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the answers. The church has to get out of propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We cannot say we have the only truth.

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

I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but "by the content of their character." In the scientific world, people are judged by the content of their ideas. Advances are made with new insights, but the final arbitrator of any point of view are experiments that seek the unbiased truth, not information cherry picked to support a particular point of view.

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is something fragmented: there is so much to it; the truth is varied and scattered across the world.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.