Quotes About Truth

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.

A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!

All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.

You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

It normally takes decades to build a brand... It's the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth. You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place

But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—

Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.

This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.