Quotes About Truth

There was a time when novelists wrote narrative and journalists were content to report facts.

I've always found it best to avoid the truth. It invariably leads to unnecessary complications. - Gabriel Allon

I've always found it best to avoid the truth. It invariably leads to unnecessary complications.

Führer, a lie is the truth, only backward.

Because men who tell one lie usually tell others. - Gabriel Allon

Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.

Like many Vatican pronouncements, the official version of events would bear little resemblance to the truth.

We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was probably a nickname bestowed by his followers. According to one source, it meant 'He who spoke truth like an oracle'. Rather than entrust his mathematical and philosophical ideas to paper, Pythagoras is said to have expounded them before large crowds. The world's most famous mathematician was also its first rhetorician.

Nothing should be of higher value to the reflective Christian in difficult circumstances than an unqualified desire to see truth triumph. One should wish passionately that it prevail, should love it more than one's own prestige or sense of security.

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Kebohongan bukan cuma berlawanan dengan kebenaran, tetapi juga sering saling bertentangan di antara mereka sendiri.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

Honesty can siphon off a few regrets and resentments if you tap in to it. Let that sink in.

Before all that long, you start telling those near to you that you went on interviews that turned out sorry when factually you never even made the phone call.

Be careful before you believe someone in this world because we are living in such a world where there is artificial lemon juice use for welcome drink and real lemons use for finger bowls.

Hearst knew that in war propaganda, it is not crucial whether something is true or not. What matters is that it is constantly repeated and communicated to the population through many media outlets.

We can be honest without saying what we mean to say, we can talk about the weather while ignoring the rain.

over the realities.

It slowly dawned on me: if I could lie and be quickly forgiven, there was nothing to stop me from actually doing some of the stuff I was making up. Catholicism flipped a switch and turned me on to a life of crime.

these changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn't say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was experiencing highly-structured geometric hallucinations on regular basis, and while he knew what he saw was real, he wasn't sure anyone would believe him if he tried to explain it.." pp21

Una cosa es desear la paz y otra muy distinta fingir que la guerra misma no existe" D