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Truth Quotes by Stephen King
- His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old…
- Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.
- Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an…
- Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters…
- Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
- Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
- Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
- if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always…
- The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man…
- It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.
- Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
- Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.
- This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.
- Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of…
- He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it…
- The truth is in the details.
- There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly…
- At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes…
More Truth Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov