Truth Is Quotes - Page 25

• The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.

  Wesley Clark

  Oil, Middle East, Would Be

  "Gen. Wesley Clark Weighs Presidential Bid: 'I Think About It Every Day'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 2, 2007.

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• For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

  John Brunner

  Impact, Data, Reason

  John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

  George Orwell

  War, Dirty, Fighting

  "Looking Back on the Spanish War". Book by George Orwell, § 1, 1943.

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• If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Self, Firsts, Calling

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• The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.

  Max Born

  Roots, Evil, World

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• The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.

  Trey Parker

  Growing Up, Marijuana, Skills

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• Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

  Philip James Bailey

  Doubt, Atheism, Shadow

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.83

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• The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Common Sense, Quality, Levels

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.113, Indiana University Press

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• We would all believe in God if he served our every whim. Belief is not about an easy life or even truth. Belief is something you have regardless.

  Jessica Shirvington

  Believe, Belief, Easy

  Jessica Shirvington (2015). “The Violet Eden Chapters”, p.412, Hachette UK

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• The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

  Mary Stewart

  Feelings, Facts, Novel

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• The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

  Deborah Harkness

  Spiritual, Study, Witch

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• Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Taken, Cost, Welcome

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• Truth is not afraid of questions.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Not Afraid

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• The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.

  Carson McCullers

  Pain, Hate, Forever

  "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1943)

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• It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.

  Ramesh S Balsekar

  Simple, Reason, Obvious

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• I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

  Lucy Walker

  Years, People, Secret

  "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.

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• Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Horse, Race, Europe

  "End horror of horses led to slaughter" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2010.

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• Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Truth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.76, Library of America

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• Truth is the summit of being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Summit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.330, Modern Library

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• I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

  Ferran Adria

  Taxi, Drivers

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• It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

  Rick Yancey

  Beautiful, Lying, Faces

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.158, Penguin

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• Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.

  Faith Hill

  Believe, Heart, Talking

  FaceBook post by Faith Hill from Jan 29, 2013

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• This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of todays elected officials.

  Michael Musto

  Commitment, Knowing, Elude You

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• The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

  Janine Benyus

  Burning Fossil Fuels, Want, Fossils

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• Custom without truth is error grown old.

  Tertullian

  Errors, Customs

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