Quotes About Truth

Will always assumed that when people insisted they weren't lying about a particular thing, that meant they were lying about something else.

Claire had realized a long time ago that if you lie with enough conviction, you can usually fool yourself.

He talked about how people always obsess about lies. Damn lies, But no one really understands that the real danger is truth.

Her birthday was yesterday, August twentieth. Why had Laura said that she was born in January? 6 Andy drove up and down what seemed like the city of Carrollton's main drag.

Jane knew he was telling the truth, just as she knew that Nick was a surgeon when it came to transplanting his ideas onto other people's tongues.

got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.

sing the hokey pokey of her life story, where she put the truth in, pulled a lie out, added an embellishment, and shook it all about.

that police captain, Jacob Mayhew, dropped

How do you trick a psychopath into telling the truth?" Laura kept silent for so long that Andrea wasn't sure she was still on the line. Eventually, her mother said, "You do the same thing that they do to you—you make them think that you believe in them.

Karin Slaughter

the great thing about lying was people believed it so long as the lie was close enough to the truth. Lena

Why are you smiling? she asked. I kissed the inside of her wrists and answered what I felt at that moment was the absolute truth. Because everything is perfect. This is what I know that I am: A fool.

Claire asked, "Do you think I should call Captain Mayhew?" "For what?" Lydia couldn't keep the alarm out of her voice. The abrupt change in subject slapped her like a cold wind. "He lied to you about the movies. He said they were fake.

As perhaps the Russians would tell us, 'When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.

If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are.

Well." Lydia took a deep breath as she prepared to sing the hokey pokey of her life story, where she put the truth in, pulled a lie out, added an embellishment, and shook it all about.

if you lie with enough conviction, you can usually fool yourself.

Dementia was nothing if not a stroll through the many skeletons lining the family closet.

you can't have a logical discussion with someone who makes up their own facts.

political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth

The very names Kierkegaard, Luther, Calvin, Paul and Jeremiah suggest what Schleiermacher never possessed, a clear and direct apprehension of the truth that man is made to serve God and not God to serve man.

Religion possesses no solution of the problem of life; rather it makes of the problem a wholly insoluble enigma. Religion neither discovers the problem nor solves it: what it does is to disclose the truth that it cannot be solved.

The Word ought to be exposed in the words

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.