Quotes About Truth

It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are alive, for instance, and eating lunch, while bombs are falling, and refugees are crammed into camps, and the news comes toward us every hour of the day. And what, in the end, do we do?

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.

Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.

Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths.

The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.