3 December 2020 Tony Blair Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I’m more likely to listen to rock music.
3 December 2020 Umberto Eco But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr. The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
3 December 2020 Pietro Aretino I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
3 December 2020 Carly Fiorina The truth is, I’m proud of the life I’ve lived so far, and though I’ve made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
3 December 2020 Jerry Seinfeld The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.
3 December 2020 Suze Orman In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.
3 December 2020 Joseph Joubert Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
3 December 2020 Doris Lessing I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
3 December 2020 NeNe Leakes Let me get you to understand I don’t bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I’m very honest and I always tell the truth. I’m not a liar, I’m not manipulative and I don’t stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
3 December 2020 Channing Tatum I’m not pretty. The truth is I didn’t think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself ‘Jesus Christ. I can’t do this. I don’t look anything like these guys’.
3 December 2020 Louisa May Alcott Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
3 December 2020 Hypatia In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
3 December 2020 Kelly Miller I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
3 December 2020 Alan Watts But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
3 December 2020 Confucius Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
3 December 2020 Chanakya There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
3 December 2020 Bo Bennett For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
3 December 2020 Yukio Mishima By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.