Quotes About Truth

one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.

Quizás haya un profeta también junto al juez en esos tribunales donde se toman nuestras verdaderas decisiones.

He had no accomplice except the credulity of other men.

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being- it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

When you're not a good man yourself you respect a good man. Now I'd prefer to die with a good man around. A good man teaches a lot of nonsense and a bad man teaches truth [...] I'm not the one to teach the boy nonsense.

It helped a lot not being able to speak much French. You sound awfully truthful if you don't know the right words.

In one great case a man [Winston Churchill] who had been considered too brilliant and too reckless ever to be trusted with major office was the leader of the country [1941]. One of Rowe's last memories was of hearing him hissed by ex-servicemen from the public gallery of a law court because he had told an abrupt unpalatable truth about an old campaign. Now he had taught the country to love his unpalatable truths.

Is the colonel seriously telling us,' Granger said, 'that he's had time to count the enemy dead and not his own?

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

I loved a man, she said. I told you—a man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man.

When we get to the end of human beings we have to delude ourselves into a belief in God.

Beware of formulas. If there's a God, he's not a God of formulas.

It wouldn't have done to cable the details of his true career, that before he died he had been responsible for at least fifty deaths

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being—it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and ties are worth a thousand truths.

Perhaps truth and humility go together; so many lies come from our pride

Letters could lie all right, but they made the lie permanent. They lay as evidence against you: they made you meaner than the spoken word.

In the Caodaist faith all truths are reconciled and truth is love.

The job of a reporter is to expose and record.

Sar-ah,' he called. 'Sar-ah,' spacing the syllables with an unbearable falsity.

Henry added with apparent anxiety, 'You're wet through, Sarah. One day you'll catch your death of cold.' A cliché with its popular wisdom can sometimes fall through a conversation like a note of doom, yet even if we had known he spoke the truth, I wonder if either of us would have felt any genuine anxiety for her break through our nerves, distrust, and hate.

All the same you needed to be a little drunk to die.

You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless.

I wrote what I saw. I took no action—even an opinion is a kind of action.