Quotes About Truth

you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ...

and you thought beauty was the outward show - but now you know the truth, my Love - it's always been the inner fire...

if you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ...

poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution...

no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

Other women I can flatter and praise – but to you, I must tell the truth...

writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...

the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...

true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

Myths aren't fairy tales or legends—they're an honest attempt to explain mysteries...

a bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground...

yes, I wrote that for you, who can't sort out lie from lay no matter how often I explain it - crayons and perfume - you still don't get it ...

what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...

Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you...

is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...

people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...

God is faithful to all His promises, nor can He fail, or deceive; He is all wise and foreknowing of everything that comes to pass; He never changes His mind, nor forgets His word; and He is able to perform, and is the God of truth, and cannot lie; nor has He ever failed in any one of His promises, nor will He suffer [allow] His faithfulness to fail; and this is a strong argument to hold fast a profession of faith.

Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.

we reporters are not all that incentivized to determine whether the underlying facts behind the leaks are truth or fiction. The fact that an important person said it is itself newsworthy.

Whatever happened, happened in exactly one way, and the investigator's job was to sift through often-conflicting bits and pieces to construct the one true story.

laughed. "Hey, if enough people say it, it has to be

For someone who was a truth-teller," said Agent Lee, "we would consider them to be a grade two or higher. And we would consider someone to be deceptive if they were a negative four or below. Chris Watts scored a negative eighteen.