Quotes About Truth

I would concede now that all these things were fabrications based on stories I'd heard. Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.

As if it's only by hurting yourself that you can be true.

Well, my stars, the thing was like the Bible—look hard enough in its pages, and you'll find what you seek. Love your neighbor, or slay him with the jawbone of an ass.

I love it for what it tells me about life. I love fiction, strangely enough, for how true it is, If it can tell me something I didn't already know, or maybe suspected but never framed quite that way, or never before had sock me so divinely in the solar plexus, that was a story worth a read.

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you. If that was from him to me, it was more man-to-man talk than I'd ever had in life so far.

Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.

No man wants to hear he has been a fool.

It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.

When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them love. They are to be acknowledged for speaking their truth.

Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone into another reality! This practice of eliminating human life because it is perceived as evil does you no good. In the end your history and experience are filled with war of one kind or another; humans fighting one another for the right to speak their truth and share their perception.And one human or another is always wanting to suppress someone else's ideas, someone else's thinking.

Mass beliefs in the power of outside authorities are firmly entrenched in your psyche; they are strong and old, and somewhat like a redwood forest they too can be felled very, very quickly, raising many questions about the truth of who you are and why you place your trust outside yourself.

Faith and it's doubting me that she is! But 'tis the truth I be telling ye, Emma. On the heads of the Blessed Saints I do swear it's the truth I am speaking, mavourneen.

As Benjamin Disraeli said, It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Meglio che tutti sappiano, posso finalmente essere me stessa, meglio anche per me sapere, mo sarebbe rimasto un padre di traverso giù per la gola, tutta la vita, meglio che sia crepato, meglio adesso. Un giorno capirò se l'ho ucciso io, adesso sono troppo giovane, devo badare a non uccidere me

Between her hand over my heart and her hips at my crotch, she might as well have been administering a polygraph.

Barry Eisler

Denial has no survival value.' If you're going to play, you have to at least recognize what the game is.

I read it somewhere once." She laughed. "You did not." "I did. Okay, I wrote it down first. Then I read it. But still.

There's a saying I like. 'Denial has no survival value.' If you're going to play, you have to at least recognize what the game is.

Barry Eisler

ask Bill Binney, or Thomas Drake, or Chelsea Manning, or Diane Roark, or Coleen Rowley, or Jeffrey Sterling, or Thomas Tamm, or Russell Tice, or Kirk Wiebe. And look what they'd done to John Kiriakou—for exposing torture

some traveler from the undiscovered country. I know as well as I know anything the dead are simply dead.

Barry Eisler

dispositive.