Quotes About Truth

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.

I think people love fundamental science.

I still believe in God, I still believe in the fundamentals of that. But I base it on the fact God is love.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

I just find there's nothing funnier and more scary than a delusional man who thinks they're the center of the universe, and in fact they're not.

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

I don't mean to be funny.

We will be best enriched by the meaning of the crucifixion in all its manifold aspects, not just as an intellectual construct, but as dynamic, living truth empowering us for the living of these days.

Oh Senator, how could you be so cruel – and so ignorant of the true facts." "Facts are facts, Mrs. Byerson….There are no such things as true facts, for then we'd have to have false facts, wouldn't we.

A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.

Love...is the immovability of truth.

Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.

Words passed, but words could no more prove an established innocence than words can enhance a love that exists.

Now a man listening to gossip about another man whom he knows very well will go pretty far in the way of believing what a beautiful woman will tell him about that other man. Beauty and truth have a way of appearing to be akin; and it is true that no man knows what another man is doing when he is out of sight.

But decent augurs grin behind their masks. They never preach to each other.

Ford Madox Ford

The beastliness of human nature is always pretty normal. We lie and betray and are wanting in imagination and deceive ourselves, always, at about the same rate.

It would be restful to serve, if only as a slave, people who saw clearly, coldly, straight, not obliquely and with hypocrisy only, such things as should deviously conduce to the standard of comfort of hogs and to lecheries winked at...He

Ford Madox Ford

The man in the corner hollered, Tell it all!

Christ is the only exit from this world; all other exits-sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence-are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of the many who have tried them

I've always had a passion for tearing the bandages from other people's eyes. I've always insisted that those round me should see things as they are. I suppose it is that I need companionship in despair. I can't understand not despairing.

La verité dans sa matière brute est plus fausse que la faux.