Quotes About Truth

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.

When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

There is no other way to know good from evil, right from wrong, unless we have His Word dwelling richly in our heart. It's good for us to spend time in His Word.

Truth is child of Time.

When this you see, remember me, And bear me in your mind. Let all the world say what they may. Speak of me as you find Ã¢â'¬Â¦ —Elizabeth Diane Downs, 1983

Perhaps robbing someone of his or her story is the greatest betrayal of all.

After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.

Marriage founded upon deception can never lead to happiness.

People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.

What matter is the information, not what you think about it.

It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.

books became the greatest purveyors of truth, and the truth shall make you free.

at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

Mrs. Blessing was surprised at how fluently she lied, much better than she'd done it years before, when it had been so much more important, at least to her. She realized that lying was easier than telling the truth because it had such nice smooth edges, not jagged with impossibility and inconvenience the way the truth so often was.

Occasionally someone will tell me that they won't have pets because they're messy, and I suppose there's some truth to that, between the fur and the slobber and the occasional puddle on the floor. I have to choke down the temptation to respond that life is messy, and its vagaries go down hardest with those who fool themselves into thinking they can keep it neat.

I don't even have a dog. I tell people I'm allergic so they won't think less of me. Instead I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of responsibility required.

No matter what the police and the district attorney said, no matter what the papers wrote, no matter what people believed then and still believe, these years later, the truth is that I did not kill my mother. I only wished I had.