Quotes About Truth

I thought if I told no one it might not be true.

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.

...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.

Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.

Feelings are real. They often become one's reality. But they are not always based on truth.

Reality is a challenge.

Does it matter whether it was a dream or a reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.

Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised.

One must always account for the vagaries of truth.

An individual's perception is their reality colored in the shades they desire--not necessarily the color that it is.

We kept our secrets because we don't want to reveal what we were before

Men in general are as much affected by what a thing appears to be as by what it is, indeed they are frequently influenced more by appearances than by reality.

Happiness is a perceptual reality, not an absolute certainty.

Happiness is an inner perception, not a reality.

Life as we know it is our perception of reality.

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.

Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?

The truth is we're all dying, the lie is we're all living.

They have their opinions, but we have the answers.

One absolutely sure way to be fearless is to speak the truth at all time about everything.

The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'.

Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth.