Quotes About Truth

There is no absolute truth. There is only your own truth. Write honestly, from the heart, and you will reach your readers.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we see may be different than what is actually in front of us.

I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized"—courtesy of Alair Townsend

When people make certain statements and their acts conform to those statements I tend to take them at their word.

Let us stop making unjustified claims and exaggerated projections about the future even if the editors of some eminent journals are just waiting to publish them.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

The idea of a thing which a man framed for himself was always more real to him than the actual thing itself.

I didn't obscure anything, I just left it out.

Frances learns something in this moment that will allow her to survive and function for the rest of her life. She finds out that one thing can look like another. That the facts of a situation don't necessarily indicate anything about the truth of a situation. In this moment, fact and truth become separated and commence to wander like twins in a fairy-tale, waiting to be reunited by that special someone who possesses the secret of telling them apart.

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable." ? Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

When stories are not told, we risk losing our way.

It's a sin for Lily to let Mercedes think it was Daddy who beat up Frances. But he has done it in the past. Surely truth can be borrowed across time without perishing. Shelf life, so to speak.

Doch die Erinnerung spielt uns Streiche. Erinnern iat ein anderes Wort für Erfinden, und nichts ist unzuverlässiger.

La palabra que Dios nos habla está llena de luz y de vida.