Quotes About Truth

Truth is a hunter. Truth is what kills you when you give up the lies.

I've asked for Philip K. Dick.

But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation

It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

I don't know means NO! I don't know means I'm too cowardly to tell you the truth because I can't deal with confrontation. I don't know means please do the dirty work for me because I don't want to hurt your feelings even more then I already have.

Cheaters never prosper

More often than not, dating a man's potential is the long road to disaster, so listen to who he says he is and take him at his word. If you can love who he is now and not have your attraction be based on who he might become, then you're in good shape. If you're not, well, then you best keep looking because most people have different aspirations than you might have for them.

Marrying someone you don't love is a sin. Because it sends both of you to hell. It destroys the other person first, but in the end it gets you, too. The magnitude of what you've done, the damage you've caused by forcing you both to live a lie.

Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.

The danger is real, Caitlin." "Give me a break. Nobody killed Woodward and Bernstein." "They weren't working in Mississippi.

because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin

Reality abides in the eyes.

And the country has drifted so far off course, nobody even cares about the truth anymore.

Comparing that shyster to a snake would be a slander to the serpent.

Willie Stark's eternal rule: There is always something.

Some stories must wait to be told. Any writer worth his salt knows this. Sometimes you wait for events to percolate in your subconscious until a deeper truth emerges; other times you're simply waiting for the principals to die. Sometimes it's both. This story is like that.

I'd come home after eighteen hours of looking at murdered children and she'd be upset that the new drapes for the living room didn't quite match the carpet. I tried more than once to explain it to her, but when I told the unvarnished truth, she didn't want to know. Who would, if they didn't have to? She had to shut all that out, and I got shut out with it.

were there when I got home, I could blurt out the truth

Faulkner did the same thing in Absalom, Absalaom, demonstrating that no two people ever experience the same event, and that history is doomed ot only be a version of events.

IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.

Nothing was what you thought it was, because no one was who they pretended to be.

When people got into the habit of lying, they came to depend on it as a means of sliding easily through life.

Old Shelby said something interesting about facts: 'People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

For only with the deepest knowledge can one diagnose that most elusive of conditions: the truth.