Quotes About Truth

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.

You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under their bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- LIES ARE NEWS AND TRUTH IS OBSOLETE!

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

I'm not trying to suggest that I was wrongly convicted by corrupt police officers. Simply that I was rightfully convicted by corrupt police officers.

The heights to which we aspire - often prove not as lofty as those that transpire.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.

Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unraveling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

It could not be denied, however, that he set a high value upon justice, for he sold it at its weight in gold.

Knowledge is power, and truth is knowledge; whoever, therefore, knowingly propagates a prejudice, wilfully saps the foundation of his country's strength.

I seek truth in a book and not the subject.

That the analogy contains a grain of truth does not make it the less mischievous.

How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.

Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.