Truth Quotes

Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.

Joan Didion

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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Thomas Merton

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The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Eminem

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When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth.

Amanda Knox

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I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Jussie Smollett

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I think there is something so compelling about the truth that whether you're a lawyer or judge or an actor, when you get at that truth, it connects with people on a particular level that I think makes your art more viable.

Sarah Jones

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A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

Michael Pena

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But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

Frank Black

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Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Christopher Fry

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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

Rachel Cusk

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I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

Sylvia Kristel

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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

Damien Chazelle

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The truth is, every single rocket launch off of planet Earth is risky.

John M. Grunsfeld

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If everyone's just saying what they feel and doing whatever they want, there's no drama in the world. And there's also no truth to it, 'cause that's just not the truth.

Martin Freeman

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And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.

Buck Owens

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The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.

Robert Baldwin Ross

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When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.

Lee Greenwood

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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Joseph Addison

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I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.

Walter Martin

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I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say that. The truth is that the Constitution is not one that morphs. It's an enduring Constitution, not a changing Constitution. That is what I've meant when I've said that the Constitution is dead.

Antonin Scalia

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All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

iO Tillett Wright

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The truth we are teaching is that every contribution in the history of the planet came from blonde people. It's not true, and it's destructive, and people are getting killed long term as a result. People don't believe that we deserve it.

Jesse Williams

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I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.

TobyMac

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