Quotes About Truth

The American people deserve to know that they're not just watching the administration's spin on their local newscasts -- they're paying for it, too.

Injustice never rules forever.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

No one can wear a mask for very long.

Truth never perishes (Veritas numquam perit).

The body never lies. It's your spiritual tuning fork.

Absurdism is the last proof that Christian truth is absolute and uncompromising, or else it is the same as no truth at all; and if there is no truth, if Christian truth is not to be understood literally and absolutely, if God is dead, if there is no immortality- then this world is all there is, and this world is absurd, this world is hell.

She honestly didn't know what was worse: living her life in the dream world, or living in a world where everyone lied to her.

Sometimes we create images of the people we love and hate in our minds, and those images override what we see with our eyes, even when they are right in front of us. Even if we've imagined them to be monsters, to see them as they truly are with our eyes and our hearts is sometimes shocking.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Don't think love has sizes. It either is or isn't

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

People don't usually think about the meaning of the words they say. It seems to them that words convey truth. That when someone hears the word "red" he will think of a ripe raspberry and not a pool of blood. That the word "love" will evoke Shakespeare's sonnets and not the erotic films of Playboy. And they find themselves baffled when the word they've spoken doesn't evoke the right response.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide. Sure, I know it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies.

I'll tell you what the problem is. You're a young guy, you join the Watch, and you're delighted with yourself. At last the whole world is divided up into black and white! Your dream for humanity has come true; now you can tell who's good and who's bad. So get this. That's not the way it is. Not at all.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it's only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right. "The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..." Sure, I know, it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies.

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.

La paranoia —que para mí es un estado de acceso a la verdad— se ponía a descascararlo todo con sus garritas de hurón: no podía evitarlo.

una historia de mí; quizá no sea correcta, pero cuéntame de mí. Necesito una versión de mí».

La verdad, hablaban sólo por cumplir un ritual, con un propósito único, no decir nada.

Rich people don't have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their 'work' is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention.