“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
Truth is simple in theory and messy in practice. These quotes tackle honesty, deception, self-awareness, and the uncomfortable reality that the truths most worth hearing are usually the ones you least want to hear.
“When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.”
“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
“Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.”
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
“It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.”
“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”
“The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.”
“Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.”
“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.”
“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”
“It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.”
“The first reaction to truth is hatred.”
“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.”
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”