There’s a kernel of truth in every lie.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

— Marisha Pessl

I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation.

— James Grant

“It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.”

— psyche roxas-mendoza

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no…

— H. L. Mencken

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

— Edward P. Jones

I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.

— Johannes Kepler

All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.

— Sathya Sai Baba

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is…

— Tom Vilsack

A fusty nut with no kernel.

— William Shakespeare

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler…

— Linus Torvalds

The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not…

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that…

— Forest Whitaker

A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a…

— Carol Higgins Clark

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

— Aimee Mullins