Quotes About Truth

While dead men tell no tales, their corpses often speak volumes.

sometimes not knowing can be a lot worse than knowing—even if knowing proves to be very painful.

Servandae vitae mendacium.

The truth shall make you free," she said, "but first it will make you miserable.

What was that line of Sophocles from Oedipus Rex? "How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.

When all else has been discarded, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

the only person worse than a liar is a hypocrite.

The fact is, you lied about hearing something because you didn't want the management to know you were drunk on duty. Isn't that right?

Indeed, Constance. All lawyers are guilty. But this one, I think, is more guilty than most.

Denying the existence of things beyond our knowledge is as dangerous as promoting them.

Some things transcend even lunacy.

the southern gothic trappings, the rumors and whispers, were too delicious to ruin with the winter wind of truth.

it was never too late for the truth.

They use the label "anthropomorphization" as a cover, because they're scared that maybe we're all just animals after all!

The reason they interrogated Amanda all night was to break her. Not get the truth, not get answers, not make Perugia safer, but to break her so that she would say what they wanted her to say. Amanda Knox was interrogated for eight hours. Overnight. She was denied food and water. She was denied the use of a bathroom. In a police station. In a foreign country. In a foreign language. By a dozen different officers. Without being allowed a lawyer.

Dietrologia is the idea that the obvious thing cannot be the truth. There is always something hidden behind, dietro.

Occam's razor. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

Holmesian philosophy more apt: 'When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

What was it Voltaire said? "To the living we owe respect, but to the dead only truth." I honor Hugo's memory by telling the truth about him.

In other words, the case, almost from the beginning, was more about covering up mistakes and protecting the careers of powerful people than in finding the truth about who killed Meredith Kercher.

Finally, you'll tell the truth. I've read so many lies about the project I can hardly stand it. If this book can set the record straight—well, you'll be doing us a service. And I hope you won't mind if I turn on my own tape recorder while we talk. It isn't that I don't trust you. . .

how can I go on this mission without you you, who might have told me everything you feel is true?

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.