Quotes About Truth

A value is true because it's true because it's true.

The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

You get people to help you by telling the truth. Being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn't

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort. But like many short-term strategies, it's ineffective long-term. You run into people again later, and they remember you lied to them. And they tell lots of other people about it. That's what amazes me about lying.

You can't get there alone. People have to help you and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth. Being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person any day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.

Myth is not about whether something is fact or fiction; myth is more about truth. Good myth, according to the old adage, is about something that continues to be true again and again, over time.

The bitter truth was that AIDS did not just happen to America—it was allowed to happen by an array of institutions, all of which failed to perform their appropriate tasks to safeguard the public health.

If you don't abide by scientific principles, chaos will ensue.

Often, the most dangerous deception was the one that looked the most like the truth.

They don't need the facts because they already know the truth—their common sense has spared them the effort of investigation or thought.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

do not believe in large-scale conspiracies. If I ever meet more than three or four people who can actually keep a secret, then maybe I'll reconsider.

Emotion, any emotion, was a symptom of perceived reality, not reality itself.

If you'd spent your life abusing drugs, like a normal person, your skills as a liar would be more highly evolved.

Smith, parts of your story don't match up with what we found

I'm prone to exaggerate when I'm sober.

Bootlicking mainstream media is spreading wrong picture of the farmers protest and the foolish viewers are accepting it.

Common sense is the lie codified and vulgarized.

Do not seek what you do not wish to find.

People tend to conceive things as true when they wish them to be true.