The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can... I might be in a financial review and be sketching because I find that I actually listen better when I sketch. Truth be told, there are probably more sketches in my books than there are written notes.
When in doubt tell the truth.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
The truth is, the harder you fight, the sweeter are the rewards in the end.
You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you.
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.