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Quotes About Truth

There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.
~ Benjamin Constant
You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.
~ Billy Beane
The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.
~ Bob Dylan
I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.
~ Brad Pitt
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
~ Charles de Lint
Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.
~ Charles Mathias
Secrets are made to be found out with time.
~ Charles S. Sanford, Jr.
As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.
~ David Jeremiah
I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.
~ Delmore Schwartz
I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.
~ Dick Dale
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
~ Douglas Adams
Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.
~ Frank Warren
People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.
~ Julia Peterkin
Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.
~ Katharine Brush
The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.
~ Kent Conrad
One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Truth was the only daughter of Time.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.
~ Lester Bowie
The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.
~ Martin Bashir
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.
~ Mary Stewart
Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.
~ Michael Langford
We live in a time of fake news - things that are made up and manufactured.
~ Neil Portnow