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Quotes About Truth

Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.
~ W. H. Auden
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.
~ Leonard Shlain
The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.
~ Joseph Boyden
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
~ Helen Rowland
The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.
~ Aesop
We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
~ Thomas Jefferson
As time goes on, thing do get made up.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
~ Ramana Maharshi
I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.
~ Kate Moss
There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.
~ Jostein Gaarder
My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.'' And that really stuck with me.
~ Jaden Smith
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
~ Roland Barthes
Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.
~ Andrew Tobias
Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.
~ Calvin Miller
There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.
~ Stephen King
Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.
~ Tad Williams
It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.
~ Virginia Wade
There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
~ Kabir
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
~ Garrison Keillor