Quotes About Truth

An old and gray-headed error.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Yet do I believe that all this is true, which indeed my reason would persuade me to be false; and this I think is no vulgar part of faith to believe a thing not only above, but contrary to reason, and against the argument of our proper senses.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Forget not yet the tried intentOf such a truth as I have meant;My great travail so gladly spent,Forget not yet!

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it.

Go, Soul, the body's quest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best,The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.

If all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee, and be thy love.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.

Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.

A lie get halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.

Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.

Fiction is not an escape from the world either. Imaginary experience is also experience. O

True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true.

Drowning, she clung fiercely to that small, splintered piece of mast bobbing in the ocean we call justice. There is no justice, of course, or very little of it, and counting on it as a life raft is a big mistake.