Quotes About Truth

Gary D. Schmidt

I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

In an industry where people merely *play* heroes, he was the real thing.

Now he finds a way to embrace truth, not as a body of theoretical knowledge, but as a way of living: not an epistemology, but an ethics, of truth.

I have come to believe that the long-dead were no wiser than we, even when they were alive, and their being dead has added no luster to their wisdom.

That is the hazard in curiosity, I thought: all the certainties fragment and dissolve. A man curious enough and persistent enough might find even the round and solid ball of earth to be not so. He might be less proud of his faculty of reasoning when it left him with nothing whereon to stand. But then again, was not the truth a more solid foundation than illusion?

The calendar and his glass and the solicitude of his juniors may tell a man that he is old, and he can see for himself that the world and all around him have aged, but secretly he knows that he is still a youth of eighteen or twenty. And what I have said of a man, I have said because a man is what I am. It must be even more true of a woman, to whom youth and beauty and vitality are so much more to be treasured and conserved.

Seek reality and base all your decisions and actions upon it.

Equality is a lie. Understanding this is the basis of all great decisions.

The problem is we tend to act on what we believe even when what we believe isn't anything we should.

I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself not the life others expected of me.

The problem is we tend to act on what we believe even when what we believe isn't anything we should. As

But it's actually a "way of lie," for the truth is multitasking is neither efficient nor effective. In the world of results, it will fail you every time.

The ONE Thing shows up time and again in the lives of the successful because it's a fundamental truth.

Life is too short to chase unicorns. It's too precious to rely on a rabbit's foot. The real solutions we seek are almost always hiding in plain sight; unfortunately, they've usually been obscured by an unbelievable amount of bunk, an astounding flood of "common sense" that turns out to be nonsense.

There is this pervasive idea that the successful person is the "disciplined person" who leads a "disciplined life." It's a lie. The truth is we don't need any more discipline than we already have.

The real solutions we seek are almost always hiding in plain sight; unfortunately, they've usually been obscured by an unbelievable amount of bunk, an astounding flood of "common sense" that turns out to be nonsense. Ever

The truth we discovered was that you have to know values in order to recognize opportunities and have to find opportunities before you can do deals.

A balanced life is a lie.

Equality is a lie.

myths and mistruths get thrown around so often they eventually feel familiar and start to sound like the truth.

Be careful how you interpret the world; it is like that." —Erich Heller

The truth is, balance is bunk. It is an unattainable pipe dream... . The quest for balance between work and life, as we've come to think of it, isn't just a losing proposition; it's a hurtful, destructive one." —Keith H. Hammonds

There is this pervasive idea that the successful person is the "disciplined person" who leads a "disciplined life." It's a lie.