Quotes About Truth

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

If I told a lie, then I got to come back and correct it years later. I hate that I have to be the person that touch on their life and be personal and be direct with certain situations, but man, I'm glad that it's me than them.

The way I knew I was right about something was the kids got angry. That's very important: you touch that anger.

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

I keep in touch with what's real.

Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.

I am touched by my readers who loved my books. All the stories are true incidents in life. Now I have realised, any amount of imagination will not be as beautiful as the real life.

It might be true that we all like to be entertained, but it's also true that we all like to be equally touched by a film.

Experience has taught me that privacy truly is the touchstone of our criminal justice system.

The fact that our legal system has become so tolerant of police lying indicates how corrupted our criminal justice system has become by declarations of war, 'get tough' mantras, and a seemingly insatiable appetite for locking up and locking out the poorest and darkest among us.

When we look at our justice system, we have this image of a balancing scale: truth and justice, right and wrong. But for years, our system has been lopsided, where it's not about truth and justice or balance. It's about being tough on crime, and sometimes that means you're putting the wrong person behind bars.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.