Quotes About Truth

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.

What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.

If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you must be true.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.

All that is gold does not glitter.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

Never trust anything you read in a travel article.