Top 1200 Harsh Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer's conscience.

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

When the truth emerges, then we reconcile ourselves to truth and unity and in charity or in love.

The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness

The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.

At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.

Greatest victory which we desire, is to defeat truth and Lo! Truth is undefeated

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences-making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings or risking their anger. And yet, when we don't tell the truth, and others don't tell us the truth, we can't deal with matters from a basis in reality.

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.

This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.