Truth Quotes and Quotations
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A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Charlie Chaplin
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Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman
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A person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
Karl Marx
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
Malcolm X
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
Malcolm X
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley
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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
Jim Morrison
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.
Jim Morrison
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Pablo Picasso
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
