Quotes About Truth

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

Liberals don't have to emerge from the hot tub and start attending NASCAR races or - God forbid - church, but it would be nice if they'd stop lying all the time.

Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.

I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong!

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?

Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.

What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it's been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

I can handle a bad story better than anybody as long as it's true and, you know, over a course of time, I'll make mistakes and you'll write badly and I'm OK with that. But I'm not OK when it is fake.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time