Quotes About Truth

If a man speaks in the heart of a forest and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?

One understands the meaning of undying, Ah, The essential sound of wisdom

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors, and thieves. —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC)

One should speak truthfully; one should not get angry; when asked, one should give, even if there is just a little. With these three traits, one would go in the presence of the radiant ones.

Procrastination is your way of avoiding your fantasy of reality.

A rumor needs no true parent. It only needs a willing carrier

Just like that chicken coop, everything got four sides: his side, her side, an outside, and an inside. All of it is the truth.

Lie to everyone in this man's world if need be, but never lie to yourself, because that's the quickest road to destruction.

We all have secrets in our hearts.

As one of the admirers of Carlos Castaneda puts it: If the account is a documentary truth, then Castaneda is a great anthropologist; if it is an imaginative tale, then he is a master fiction writer. In either case he wins. How can we reply to this argument?

Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth! Only a Janus, groaned Hamilton.

If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

My dad always uses this expression: If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

You have no idea what it's like when you can't trust your own parent. He was so startled that he retreated a half step. The truth was that Ian knew exactly what it was like.

If there is a Mount Everest," I remind him. "We learned about it in school, so it might be total baloney.

If it wasn't for Randy, I never would have taken the bike ride that turned into my first run-in with Serenity's invisible barrier. That was a horrible experience, but I'm grateful for it now. Without it, I might never have stumbled on the truth about Project Osiris. We could all still be lab rats in the experiment.

In this case, with mashed potatoes. "It's not about the potatoes!

I've never heard a teacher say something that was so completely, totally honest.

I used to call my dad. The surge of emotion is so raw that it's all I can do to hold back tears. One look at him and I'm six years old again, and he's hugging me and stroking my hair the way he did when I was upset. I was living a lie back then, but at least I was happy.

Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.