Truth is beautiful, no matter what the truth is. Even if it's scary or bad. It is beauty simply because it's true. And truth is bright. Truth makes you more you.
Ava Dellaira
Related Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. MAHATMA GANDHI Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint. VERNON HOWARD Truth is a tendency. R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. VICTOR HUGO The truth is, I'm not body confident. TAMSIN EGERTON The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted. VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Truth is the best defense. WARD CHURCHILL A gift of truth is the gift of love. DAVID ICKE Truth is a great flirt. FRANZ LISZT The truth is, I'm pretty lighthearted. MATT BERNINGER Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it. JOSEPH SMITH, JR. Truth is always a delusion. FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end. LAUREN DESTEFANO There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because i... NEILS BOHR It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Never lie when the truth is more profitable. STANISLAW JERZY LEC I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO Truth is absolute, no matter what your truth says it is. TRAVIS J HEDRICK There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. JOHN STEINBECK Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music. YANNI What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective tr... CLAIRE MESSUD Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false. F. H. BRADLEY The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh. CARL REINER Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. FRANCIS BACON Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. EMILY DICKINSON When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete. VACLAV HAVEL A lot of truth is said in jest. EMINEM The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. ROBERT CAPA All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie? FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. TERRY EAGLETON What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That... C. JOYBELL C. Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at ... BERNARD WILLIAMS The truth is always more heroic than the hype. JESSICA LYNCH My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes ... MARIAN KEYES I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward. GEORGES BERNANOS The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which i... GEORGE SELDES Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is... JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME Beauty is truth, truth beauty JOHN KEATS Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A new untruth is better than an old truth. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning. BRADLEY A. SMITH The truth is I don't watch TV at all. It bores me. AVI The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. ABU BAKR Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. MAHATMA GANDHI The truth is rarely pure and never simple. OSCAR WILDE The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The truth is an ambition which is beyond us. PETER USTINOV The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. JAMES MADISON The truth is, your identity already has been stolen. FRANK ABAGNALE The truth is an anti-war statement in itself. HENRY ROLLINS The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. HENRY DAVID THOREAU The truth is, I've been the Hulk my whole life. LOU FERRIGNO The truth is that I don't really care what everyone thinks. BENY STEINMETZ There is a big difference between telling the truth and being honest. Being honest requires knowing ... BRANDI KEELER I think the truth is black-and-white. NANCY GRACE The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine. GUY GAVRIEL KAY The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. GLORIA ESTEFAN Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to. CASEY NEISTAT Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth. OWEN C. MIDDLETON If you think little truth is not enough for you, try too much truth. The hurt from too much truth is... RAYMOND OBENG If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die... ALBERTO CAEIRO Truth is like a flower, if you tend to it and leave it in the sunshine, it will blossom into somethi... ANGIE KARAN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Stop opposing the truths.The truth is truth no matter how you take it. It is not going to be changed... BIKASH BHANDARI Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful even if the surface is ugly. Truthful is he w... SUZY KASSEM The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and confl... ANDREI TARKOVSKY But the sad truth is that the truth is sad, and that what you want does not matter. A series of unfo... LEMONY SNICKET Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and g... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. UNKNOWN You want beauty,” said Hercule Poirot. “Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always ... AGATHA CHRISTIE Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the tru... RAVI ZACHARIAS The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. AYN RAND There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. ANDRE MAUROIS Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. PLATO Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. LORD BYRON The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now. LANA TURNER All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixe... BRUCE LEE Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty. PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hi... ANNALEE NEWITZ The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it. CONOR MCGREGOR The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us. PETER USTINOV Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like ... VIRGINIA WOOLF A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. THOMAS MANN In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda. CHARLES LINDBERGH Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. MARY ASTELL I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress. CARRIE FISHER The truth is I try to take people as I find them. TONY ABBOTT I always say this: 'In life, truth is on your side.' DANIEL SNYDER The truth is I have had, for whatever reason, several movie-star boyfriends. EMMA FORREST Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. H. A. OVERSTREET The truth of the matter is that facts seldom prove the truth. Why? Because truth is inly found in a ... HAROLD J. DUARTE-BERNHARDT Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth. KEDAR JOSHI I'm one of my sensations. ALBERTO CAEIRO The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing ... EMINEM
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