I Know The Truth Quotes:

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

- Christian Bale

source: "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

topic: Misunderstood, Actors, I Know The Truth, Being Misunderstood

In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.

- Loung Ung

source: Loung Ung (2012). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, Random House

topic: Heart, Mean, Reality, I Know The Truth

I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work.

- Julie Garwood

source: Julie Garwood (1997). “The Wedding”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

topic: I Love You, Falling In Love, Hurt, Wenches, I Know The Truth

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

- George Orwell

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom, Knowing The Truth, Mind Opening

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

- William Blake

topic: Trust, Courage, Truth, Knowing The Truth, Lies Truth

The unexamined life is not worth living.

- Socrates

topic: Inspirational Life, Life Is, Unexamined Life, Inner Life, Journey Of Self Discovery

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Funny, Bible, Truth, Inconvenient Truth, Jealousy And Insecurity

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from Feb 12, 2011

topic: Motivational, Truth, Fighting, You Want Me, Famous Boxer

I know where Im going, and I know where Ive been.

- Leonard Nimoy

topic: Free Yourself, I Know The Truth

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

- Isaac Newton

source: Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Famous Last Words, Mathematics And Science

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

- Samuel Butler

topic: Wisdom, Truth, Lying, Lies Truth, Lying Men

I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

- Sylvia Plath

source: The Bell Jar ch. 1 (1963)

topic: New York, Junior Year, Bell Jar, College Days, I Know The Truth

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Truth, Lying, Science, Questioning Beliefs, Philosophy Of Science

I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods... I don’t want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was 12, but I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m not a Christian anymore. I know where I’m going and I know the truth and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

- Muhammad Ali

source: "The real reason Muhammad Ali converted to Islam" by Jonathan Eig, www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2017.

topic: Christian, Believe, Moving, Believe In Allah, I Know The Truth

I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for something deeper and weirder and infinitely more strange, and that, in some way, I already know the truth. But I think that's just how the world has always been. And even now I know the truth, the world still seems cheap and shoddy. Different world, different shoddy, but that's how it feels.

- Neil Gaiman

source: Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Five: 7 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.6, Harper Collins

topic: Thinking, Different, World, I Know The Truth

The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and twisting with pain, and sobbing with pain, i laugh.Because I know now. I know the answer. I know the truth. Oh,dead man, you are dead wrong, I tell him.Can't you see? The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I [do not. I do not.]

- Jennifer Donnelly

source: Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.245, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Pain, Stupid, Men, Shuddering, I Know The Truth