Quotes About Truth

Later in my life I would come to understand that history books are the least reliable witnesses

I sense that Chief Justice Kennedy has personally concluded taht the Crown has proven its case, that Craig is a credible witness, and that James is guilty of Murder 2...He doesn't say for instance, that 'Craig Landry has provided you with his account of what happened.' Instead he says, 'Craig Landry has told you what happened to Phillip Boudreau.

You are not who you think you are.

I think I see it." I hoped I was looking in the right place. Constellations had always seemed like a cruel joke to me. How could someone take a few dots in the sky, turn them into an elaborate picture, and expect everyone to share their delusion?

aAlina Cerunda was pretty despite her seventy years. Anyone who says she wasn't is a liar. However, old people always look like they're in disguise, and that ruins everything.

By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality.

Nic nie pozostaje ukryte na zawsze.

Those who can make you believe absurdities,' said Voltaire, 'can make you commit atrocities.' By contrast, my caution cannot do any such thing.

Consciousness is a story that we tell ourselves. But what if that story is a lie?

We are only showed what is acceptable, as the unacceptable is the truth.

Whenever people wonder "What is the truth?" usually it is because the truth is just under their noses—but it would be very inconvenient to acknowledge it.

They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.

The truth might set you free, but there's nothing that says you have to be grateful.

The light may cast many reflections but is it still the light that matters.

The Night Times has prided itself throughout its long history in telling the truth, the whole truth, and as much gossip as it could get away with.

If they could only have gathered their thoughts for a moment, they would have known these fears weren't real

Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren't.

Stalin was always exceptional, even from childhood. We have relied on Trotsky's unrecognizably prejudiced portrait for too long. The truth was different. Trotsky's view tells us more about his own vanity, snobbery and lack of political skills than about the early Stalin.

When Sagirashvili accused him of propagating anti-Menshevik lies in his Pravda, 'he would grin in a seemingly good-natured way' and explain, in a pre-Orwellian dictum, that a 'lie always has a stronger effect than the truth. The main thing is to

obtain one's objective.' As Stalin later told Molotov, 'Truth is protected by a battalion of lies.

Scientific proof is inevitably fickle and shoddy. On the other hand mathematical proof is absolute and devoid of doubt.