Quotes About Truth

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

If I feel that somebody is hurting other people, then I'm going to make sure other people know - other people know about them.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

There's this misconception in the industry that you might have to go a little lighter or skate on the surface in order to reach people - and then in your second album, you get to tell who you are.

Getting under the surface of real-life humans' poker faces humans is hard in a sitcom, even a drama.

Surgeon generals are appointed by presidents, but our work isn't about politics. Our highest duty to to the public. Our true guide is science. Our job is to speak the truth about public health, even when it's controversial or perceived as political.

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.

Honestly achieved results surpass all others.

My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.

We need to live our truth. We need to discover ourselves. And no matter how much you prepare for everything, life will always find a way to surprise you.