975 private quotes tagged truth

“One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.” — V. S. Naipaul

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“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.” — Louis Aragon

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“Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.” — Horatio Nelson

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“I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.” — Luke Scott

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“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.” — Dorothy L. Sayers

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“Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.” — Jeanette Winterson

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“Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.” — David Sedaris

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“You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.” — Annie Leibovitz

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“A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.” — Patrick Kavanagh

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“The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.” — Dylan Moran

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“I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.” — George McGovern

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“My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.” — Leslie Fiedler

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“The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.” — Brooke Burke

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“Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.” — Joyce Meyer

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“Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?” — Anthony Hope

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“The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.” — George McGovern

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“Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.” — Gerald R. Ford

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“It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.” — R. Lee Ermey

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“The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.” — Lewis Thomas

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“My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.” — Javier Bardem

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“I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.” — Bob Kane

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“It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.” — Sargent Shriver

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“Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.” — Joseph Conrad

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“Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.” — Charles Stanley

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“My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.” — Anne Lamott

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