Famous Quotes About truth

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.