Quotes About Truth

How can you help? If you will only . . ." He stopped. He had been trying, with no apparent success, to bridge the chasm between them. But that was not all he wanted, was it? No, he was far more ambitious than even he had realized. He wanted her to . . . "Fall in love with me." He heard, loud and clear, the words the truth serum compelled from him. "If you loved me, everything would be so much easier.

She had managed to get to the truth of the matter in every case that had been entrusted to her. But truth had a vicious way of upsetting everything else on its way to the surface. And he was hard-pressed to say, as someone whose existence had been repeatedly convulsed by recent overdoses of truth, whether there had been anything satisfactory to the aftermaths.

As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

When we don't want to know the truth, we don't hear the truth spoken to us.

You pass your photo through Photoshop and then others go photo shopping.

These days (if I may steal a term from the jargon of the contemporary rialto), it is not politically correct to admit that some people die of old age.

We are not well served by being lulled into unjustified expectations.

The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts.... It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.

But these notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn't their object. They are merely notes of impressions, a record of vagrant thoughts, hopes, ideas that have floated through the mind of one present-day American. It is likely that I have not, and will not, put into them one truth, measuring by the ordinary standards of truth. It is my aim to be true to the essence of things. That's what I'm after.

There is no use my not facing everything frankly. By facing everything frankly one gets everything quite cleared up.

the important thing to learn is to know what people think, not what they say

Be careful. Don't get too close to the truth when talking with the rich,' I was whispering to myself.

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

Being honest about your feelings always works.

If you want to spot a liar, just remember that concealing the truth is like swallowing a slow-acting poison. It might take a while, but it will get them in the end. —VICTOR FLEMMING I

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.

The main thing I have in common with the kids is that we are tired of being lied to...If it is not too late for America to be saved, the young will save it – and the blacks, the Indians, the Spanish-surnamed,the young women, and the other victims of American society. They, if any, will become the conscience that the Country has lacked. They will try to force it to practice what it has preached.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

We need proof in our society.