Quotes About Truth

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.

I'm not rich, though everybody thinks I am.

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

I think audiences are really thirsty for real shows about real people in any circumstances.

It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.

This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America.

Thomas Rhett Akins doesn't sound like a rock star name. I didn't leave Akins out to convince people my dad wasn't my dad. I've always been called Thomas Rhett.

I mean, Ed Snowden was basically saying the same things that Bill Binney and Thomas Drake and other U.S. whistleblowers had said before him. But he came out more publicly, and maybe revealed more. He showed that when the U.S. government said, 'We are not surveilling U.S. citizens,' that was a lie.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.

Loyalty and honesty, those are important.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Art thou the King of the Jews?