Quotes About Truth

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.

Half of tradition is a lie.

It was not that she felt any allegiance to the truth. God knows she had cheated on too many men for the truth to be more than a stumbling block. But sometimes falsehood took more strength than she could summon up.

In high school, American history had been a happy story; now Chihani told them the sad one.

I'll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

God knows nothing we don't know. We gave him every word he ever said.

When people praise a poem that I can't understand I always think they're lying.

What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

To a degree, Sharpton, Mason, and Maddox succeeded in making the truth of the case irrelevant. They promulgated a "could have been" theory that had resonance for many blacks distrustful of white authority.

In my solitude I have seen things very clearly That were not true —Antonio Machado, 1983

But everything's Horror, isn't it? Sometimes you just can't see the blood

It's from George Santayana, a Spanish-American philosopher from the first part of the twentieth century. He also famously said that history is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren't there.

People always talk about unreli­able narrators and, to tell you the truth, I think that's a redundant term. I think 'narrator' inheres unreliability, because even if we don't mean to lie, we're still selecting this event instead of that event to talk about, and that's a form of omission. Anyone who narrates a story, or narrates anything, is always giving you their version, and their version always has a slant to it.

A thousand truck-stop T-shirts can't be wrong.

Now you're the adult who doesn't believe this is really happening. And, what always happens to that adult? Do you still remember, or do you forget all the true things when you grow up, Peter Pan?

And none of Grandpa's stories were ever lies. I know that now. They were just true in a different way. He had

How much of life have I wasted by believing the thing I was taught, that thinking is what makes us better, that the brain is superior to heart. —AUTHOR'S JOURNAL, JUNE 2001

If you believe something to be, it becomes truth for you. Therefore, be careful what you accept as true for it will influence all aspects of your life and your future.

Uno, de ningún modo debe, por lo tanto, ceder a la sensación magnificada de angustia, y escapar del temor para retroceder a la seguridad de la vida mezquina y cotidiana. Uno tiene que abrazar al temor y entregarse a él, ya que "el temor que siente el valiente"[16] es el estado emocional que lo prepara para la revelación final. Esa revelación final es la de la verdad de las metafísicas judeocristiana y hegeliana.

A man may lie to his psychiatrist, his doctor, his wife, his employer, to God and to Mom, but his teeth tell all;

If they's interested, they wouldn't believe it. If they believed it, they'd arrest me.