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Quotes About Truth

Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.
~ George Carlin
Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they 'ought to be.' And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem. My motto: Fuck Hope!
~ George Carlin
It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.
~ George Carlin
You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day... The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!
~ George Carlin
Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He'd say, I'm goin' upstairs to fuck your grandmother. He was an honest man, and he wasn't going to bullshit a four-year-old.
~ George Carlin
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
~ George Carlin
We're all fucked. It helps to remember this.
~ George Carlin
Twat is twat and that is that.
~ George Carlin
As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.
~ George Carlin
Everyone appreciates your honesty, until you're honest with them. Then you're an asshole
~ George Carlin
And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty. The part I like the best? 'All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.' That's because there is no Humpty Dumpty, and there is no God. None, not one, no God, never was.
~ George Carlin
We're all fucked. It helps to remember that.
~ George Carlin
We're all f***ed, it helps to remember that.
~ George Carlin
It's all bullshit, folks.
~ George Carlin
Life gets really simple once you cut out all the bullshit they teach you in school.
~ George Carlin.
His very regard for truth melts at last into a perversion of truth.
~ George Dangerfield
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
~ George Eliot
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
~ George Eliot
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
~ George Eliot
After all, the true seeing is within.
~ George Eliot
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
~ George Eliot
It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
~ George Eliot
She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.
~ George Eliot
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
~ George Eliot