Quotes About Truth

If you don't know it, don't write it.

You thought I was a werewolf?" Dervish asks. "Yes" I answer hollowly. "You ass.

No. I am your father.

SUVs are named for exotic places we'll never go, like the Dodge Durango or the MGC Yukon. There should be truth in advertising: like calling them the Dodge Dubuque, or the GMC "I'm Going to 7-Eleven for a Moon Pie."

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know." Sam Spade "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere

Two tongues in their mouths, the one they use to promise and the one they use to lie.

What happened at the end of our last story is something called misdirection. It's what happens when you are led to believe that something is true, but in reality it's not true at all. Misdirection happens a lot in real life- especially in politics, history, education, medicine, marketing, science, religion, and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.

Do you suppose it's true, that St. Patrick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew?

It is not our job to defeat those we disagree with. Instead, we are to speak the truth in love with respect, honor, and compassion for the listener

Of course she had always denied having family, but truth was a seasonal fruit.

We all find reasons to accept sugary fables and ignore unwelcome tidings.

La vérité est comme un joyau taillé, monsieur Smith. Elle a des millions de facettes. Si je t'en montre une, tu seras satisfait, mais n'oublie pas qu'il en existe bien d'autres. —

I never tell you lies, imp. But sometimes I don't tell everybody all the truth.

People believe what they want to believe, lad. It's very hard to believe in anything that will make you unhappy.

1. The Word of God will save you. 2. The Word of God will teach you all truth. 3. The Word of God will lovingly confront your sin. 4. The Word of God will correct any incorrect ideas of life. 5. The Word of God will guide you in every decision you make. 6. The Word of God will equip you to navigate through life with the proper perspective.

Who continues in God's Word and experiences freedom in Christ. John 8:31–32 states, "So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, 'If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

Whether tales are told by the light of a campfire or by the glow of a screen, the prime decision for the teller has always been what to reveal and what to withhold. Whether in alone or with images, the narrator should be clear about what is to be shown and what is to be hidden.

Like the blind men of the proverb, each individual feels a piece of the elephant, and the enormity of what he has found is overwhelming enough to convince each blindly groping observer that he has found the essence of the beast. But the whole beast is far more enormous and vastly more terrifying than society as a whole is prepared to believe.

Blood of the Martyrs The quotations on the facing page present two opposing viewpoints, both by Catholics. Only one is right. We learn the truth from John's vision and from history. The woman astride the beast is "drunken with the blood of the