Quotes About Truth

I had created a fantasy that seeing into people would be sweetness and love. Maybe there was some of that, but there was a lot more fear, and jealousy, and anger, and every bad thing I could imagine.

Coca-Cola is just a concoction of chemicals; garlic wards off heart disease and cancer; an aspirin a day keeps the doctor away. None of these statements is true, but they contain a germ of truth.

We never, ever believe the truth until it's too late.

Truth hurts — not the searching after; the running from!

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." [ Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America ; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]

Resucitan los muertos? Los libros dicen que no, la noche grita que sí

Are the dead restored? The books say no, the night shouts yes

They were myths I once believed, and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

I would stare at that strange picture, kissing it and crying over it, happy because once it had been true.

Toda la noche nos la pasamos llorando y bebiendo, y pude decirte borracho las cosas que me bullían del corazón, palabras impresionantes, símiles ingeniosos, porque llorabas por otro tipo y no oías nada de lo que te decía, pero yo me oía a mí mismo, y Arturo Bandini estuvo genial aquella noche, porque hablaba con su amor de verdad.

Bob Woodward, this is Steve Thomas.

You see," Bouton wrote, "you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." Truer words were never written.

you should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do the right thing." To

Math doesn't respond well to opinion.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.

After all, he did say you were the issue of an encounter between your father and a traeling hatcha-hatcha dancer." There was a gasp of horror from the crowd. Duncan, smiling thinly, said through gritted teeth: "Thank you so much for reminding us all, Anthony.

But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.