Quotes About Truth

Over time, my staff and I became so resigned to this style of "he said / he said" coverage that we could joke about it. ("In dueling press conferences today, the debate over the shape of planet Earth heated up, with President Obama—who claims the Earth is round—coming under withering attack from Republicans who insist that the White House has covered up documents proving the Earth is flat.")

But life could not be lived between the pages of a romance novel.

That's like hating a copperhead, Rafe said. She is what she is. Don't waste your time on it.

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.

There was certainly plenty in her own past that she was reluctant to look at. Because looking made it real.

then, she knew better than most that the face a person chose to show the world wasn't always the real one. Everyone had a story. Not everyone wanted to share.

But if she was being honest—and it was well past time for that—she had to acknowledge that the empty places in her life were of her own making.

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

As Eckhart, one of Otto's many sources, had asserted centuries earlier, referring to the Other as God, the religious seeker must set aside any idea about God as being good, wise, [or] compassionate.

I was an answer-seeking machine, in love with what I called the truth, whether it came in the form of little truth particles stuck to the pages of books or vast patterns screaming out from the obvious and mundane.

Lo que de verdad tiene el pensamiento positivo de ideología conservadora es su apego al sistema, con todas sus desigualdades y sus abusos de poder.

Why revere the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?

Maybe it is that if these stones speak at all, they speak true,' she said softly. 'They speak what will be, not what we want to hear.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

People ask without wanting to know.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Beene-beene. The truest truth.

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.

There's a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true but you haven't told anyone yet. Of all things, that is what I remember most. It was so quiet.