Plain Truth Quotes

23 quotes by 23 authors

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your… — Joseph Alsop
I have come to one firm conviction after these many years of trying to figure out the plain truth of things. The best chance for… — Ron Paul
The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will… — Edward Abbey
Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double. — Christina Stead
Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the readerâ€™s attention from the plain truth. — Sidney Hook
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of… — Laozi
The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life. — Lane Kirkland
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go… — Bill Hybels
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word. — Michel de Montaigne
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it… — Richard Dawkins
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord,… — W. Somerset Maugham
Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene,… — James Russell Lowell
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. — Richard Steele
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the… — Sam Harris
When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and… — Steven Pinker
I found plain truth very interesting. — Jodi Picoult
You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims. — Roberto Bolano
The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole… — Charles Simic
The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Who Wrote These Plain Truth Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 23 Plain Truth Quotes as follows: