Quotes About Truth

The mouth speaks what the heart has stored.

God's Word is both powerful and practical.

Don't sell yourself short, young man,' he said sternly. 'These people don't need charisma. They need hard work and the truth- exactly what you've given them. ... Popularity isn't everything. In fact, it isn't anything when you get right down to it. The majority is rarely right.

You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not.

The Days can spin yarns that seem so real that if one of them told you a tale about a blizzard, you'd get frostbite even if you were standing in your kitchen on the hottest day of the year.

Most people managed to evade home truths with astonishing ease.

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust.

But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.

But a story never told is also a danger, particularly to the people in it.

There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened.

the happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it.

This is a good reminder that no one in the world is a reliable source for their own story.

No one with real integrity tries to sell their integrity to you. People with real integrity hardly notice they have it.

My uncle Bob sees the whole world in a fun-house mirror, TRUST NO ONE lipsticked luridly across its bowed face.

He kept his eyes down. He was hiding nothing, but the truth is no servant to man. You can't make someone believe you just by telling the truth any more than you can make the truth false just by not believing it.

But the most fantastical of my imaginary worlds turned out to be the one I'd thought was real. As a child, I believed the world was run by competent, sane and benevolent adults. I believed this for much longer than I believed in Santa Claus. That belief has since gone down like the Titanic (on which I also spent a lot of time as a child). The world is run by nitwits and psychopaths.

Ä°nsanlar?n bazen göründüÄŸü kadar kötü olmad???n? öÄŸrenmiÅŸti; göründüklerinden daha kötülerdi.

Every miracle's got a mundane explanation. [...] and you can choose - you can look at the wonderous surface or you can look at the crud beneath. I want to see the wondrous, believe me. I just know it isn't going to be there when I've finished looking.

Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....

When wars end, all the shit comes tumbling out. People talk, point fingers at each other, reveal things they've kept quiet for years.

I don't mind being shot at. It's having a government that lies to me that I hate.

Let's revise the old adage for our times. All that it requires for evil to succeed is that enough lazy, stupid bastards believe everything they're told.

There's three things you should never believe—weather forecasts, the canteen menu, and intel.

Humans have a wonderful saying for everything and then proceed to ignore the wisdom in all of them.