Quotes About Truth

I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.

We live in a time where increasingly our national leaders are more like dons of crime than statesmen, where notions of plausible deniability replace truth, and claims that politicians never knew of evil done in their own names by others are commonplace. It is the age of unbridled arrogance and video showmanship, where the challenge ' prove what I knew and when I knew it ' has become a national motto.

They had lost all sense of the art, always to provide one's prince with the refuge of credible deniability, what the British called a scintilla of truth.

If the truth be known, they would realize that Cheng's network was far more pervasive, so much so that it had drilled into the very core of the American government in Washington.

We can see this flowing circuit of truth in action by recalling that when we have a vivid truth experience—when we learn something of real value that we are enthusiastic about—it fills us with a desire to relate this truth to someone else.

it is not enough to know merely what the Bible says. In fact, that can be dangerous. What is essential is to understand what the Bible means.

You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me…" (John 5:39).

So we put ourselves in a dangerous place when we formulate concrete opinions about who God is without filtering our thoughts through Jesus.

The finished aspect of the work of Jesus Christ is real. We don't finish it by our faith. We simply experience it through believing.

The idea that God does His part and we have to do our part in order to experience His blessings is one of the greatest misunderstandings that affects people today. It affects how we understand the Bible. It affects how we perceive God. It affects how we live our lives.

You live in a world of illusion Where everything's peaches and cream We all face a scarlet conclusion But we spend our time in a dream

There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.

People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

While Jesus transcends culture, culture does not change God's word.

HIstory collects secrets like politicians collect lies.

Frankly, it's easy to fall into the trap of lying to ourselves about a negative routine. You might think an action (like drinking) is an innocent thing that "sometimes" gets out of control. However, the people around you might have a different opinion. Perhaps they feel this habit is the sign of a deep-seated addiction that needs immediate attention.

Everybody cheats. I just didn't know.

The best kinds of stories are made up out of little bits of truth and stretched into a pleasing shape.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

If you read the same things as others and say the same things they say, then you're perceived as intelligent. I'm a bit more independent and radical and consider intelligence the ability to think about matters on your own and ask a lot of skeptical questions to get at the real truth, not just what you're told it is.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.

Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. And you know why I think that happens? Too much truth distilled to its essence, all surrounding evidence ignored or discarded. And I'm not faulting them for that.

Art is edited truth . . . Art is skill in the service of passion. —STEPHEN SONDHEIM

There may be strength in numbers, but not necessarily truth.