Quotes About Truth

You can tell a guy the truth, and they might hate you for that day, but they'll come back that night and text you, like, 'You know what? You were right.' I just think if you tell guys the truth, they can respect you more.

The real answers aren't in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.

My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.

The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.

How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and I look back and give thanks for how it changed me and the truth I found.'

Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.

Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.

Honesty is the best policy, I think - there's no point trying to be fake, and that's one thing I never have been.

In my experience, honesty is the best policy. And being a friend to somebody is not always the best way to help them.

The first thing that comes out of my mouth is always right.

The first thing that comes to your head is probably the only thing you should say. If you have to sit down and spend ten minutes trying to have something genuine, it may not be all that genuine.

Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in school.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.