Quotes About Truth

Sometimes the truth is stupid.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

Listen to what people say when they are mad, that's when the truth comes out.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

I hope that the truth shall eventually give me back my freedom.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.