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" Quotes and Sayings About truth

I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
American Been Has-Been Much
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Holding Least Metaphors Most
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They say you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. Well, the truth is, you knew exactly what you had, you just thought you’d never lose it.

Know Truth Gone Exactly
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

Because Deep Find Found
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

Another Bringing Developed Example
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The truth is that some of us don’t need any extra gifts we just lack the discipline of focus

Truth Discipline Focus Extra gift
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The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does.

Certainly Does Food Major
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Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Find out Person truth Soul
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Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

Allow Always Battle Christ
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Acquainted Against Become Disputed
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Beauty Book Books Deep
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It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

Fairy Tale Fairy Patch Quilt
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The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

Again Baby Best Comedy
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'Entourage' is a staple L.A.-based show, and people say it's pretty real, and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.

Entourage Exaggeration People Pretty
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Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Aristotle Friend Greatest My Friend
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Appear Been Before Boy
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Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Confusion Ever Found Multiplicity
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If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

About Always Another Any
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There's a bit of truth in everything I do, you know.
Bit Everything Know Truth
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It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.

Eye Imagination Addresses Ideas
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A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

A Character Contrived Like
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I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

Lying Men Suffering Speak
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To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Death Found Guilty Possession
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I have my go-to products. It's hard not to come off very self-promoting, but the truth is, I don't make any product that I don't personally wear. In terms of things I can't live without, my Lock-It Foundation and my Featherweight Primer set the groundwork for my makeup.

Any Come Foundation Groundwork
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I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

Seen Truth Sense
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If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Tell Truth Start talking
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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

About Connected Done Feel
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Truth Needs Garments Appeal
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Delight Understand Abstract System
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Absolutely! One of the qualities of a good Leader. Always wanting to hear the truth whether it's painful or not.

Absolutely Qualities Wanting Hear
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Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
Experience Finally Happens Long
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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
Relief Told Such Truth
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Fiction Result Shall Tell
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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

Truth Cry Game
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To succeed in business, you need somebody in your corner who cares enough to challenge you and is courageous enough to tell you the truth, especially when the pressure is on.

Succeed Business Cares Challenge
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The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

Attempt Baby Base Bath
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Calm Fierceness Error Truth
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I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

Alone Been Definitely Like
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Sometimes, the cover-up is worse than the crime. The truth stands.

Cover-up Worse Crime Truth
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You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

Away Because I Love Just
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

After All Things As Far As Doubt
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Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Cause End Heart In The End
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I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

Anyway Good Had Heart
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I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they're made. And I always say this and it's really the truth. If being 4'11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig.

Accepting Add Alive Always
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You doubt because you love truth.

Doubt Love truth
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The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Cruelty Mercy Truth With
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I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Always Am Approach Best
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Door Errors Out Shut
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The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.

Right Claim Human being Speak
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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