Truth Quote by William Faulkner — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

“I reckon if there’s ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with His mind at rest, it would be Cora. And I reckon she would make a few changes, no matter how He was running it. And I reckon they would be for man’s good. Leastways, we would have to like them. Leastways, we might as well go on and make like we did.”

“It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.”

“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”

“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”

“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”

“I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.”

“Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions.”

“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth”

“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.”