Plain Truth Quotes

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.

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 innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

Sometimes the truth is stupid.

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

The usefulest truths are the plainest.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

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 not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

The language of truth is simple.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.