Quotes About Truth

Denying the truth would solve nothing.

Thomas and Teresa

People still believe what the SQ tells them to believe. Because fear is always more powerful than truth.

Look," she said. "You're right. You deserve an explanation. I think it's okay to tell you everything now—not that we know too much of the why.

If everything they'd been insisting was true was in fact true, he didn't want to face his past even if he could.

Thomas hesitated at first, but he knew he had to tell them everything. And there was no better time than the present. He sucked in a deep breath and started talking.

James Dashner The Death Cure

Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.

What do we need all that for? "If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good. I firmly believe Rebel Without a Cause is such a picture.

Whatever's inside making me what I am, it's like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.

All families lie together, though some are burned alive.The others try to feelFor them. Some can, it is often said.

There is no whole truth, but this is what we have, And it goes on Beyond impact, beyond reach, beyond recall…

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

As Talleyrand memorably said, 'The truth is whatever is plausibly asserted and confidently maintained.' If I tell you something three times you will believe it, said the Bellman, and usually we do.

the IPCC now spoke comfortably of consensus and endorsed those mysterious concepts of sustainability and energy that renewed itself. We even thought that this way somehow we could save the planet and grow richer as well, a more pleasing outcome than the uncomfortable truth.

the meek, who suffer spoliation rather than jeopardize their souls in contention, shall inherit the earth; those that hunger and thirst for the truth shall be fed in rich abundance;

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.

Only authentic Christianity brings together both truth and grace.

When you believe something to be true, you are "in one mind" about accepting it; when you do not believe something to be true, you are "in one mind" about rejecting it. "To doubt," Os Guinness writes, "is to waver between the two, to believe and disbelieve at once and to be 'in two minds.

Whenever we make a decision about something, most of us want to be sure, beyond any doubt, of what is absolutely true. That will never happen spiritually. We're talking about God, and there is no way you can get every question about him answered. If you could fathom everything that there is to know about God, he'd be no bigger than your mind—no larger than your intellect—and that would be a small God. The goal isn't to get every answer, but enough answers.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.