Quotes About Truth

My veracity is dearer to me than my life, said the peasant; nor would I purchase the one by forfeiting the other.

My soul abhors a falsehood

abstractions may be indispensable. But they don't accurately reflect reality.

Spicer felt the media were no longer being held accountable for their mistakes.

A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It's weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.

You don't have to feed the lie if you don't want it to. If you make it credible it will become that, but only in your mind and only as disproportionate as you've decided it is. Truth has a way of being more persistent and if the two ever meet, truth will win.

Gaffer Swanthold speaks truth when he saith, 'Better a crust with content than honey with a sour heart.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world - by a teacher, a writer, anyone - is a judgement. The judgement that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.

To hell with your courts, I know what justice is.

There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged".

The president, the secretary of state, and the secretary of defense were lying to the American public—there was no evidence of any attack, and the American destroyers were not on "routine patrol" but on spying missions.

Outright lying or quiet omission takes the risk of discovery which, when made, might arouse the reader to rebel against the writer. To state the facts, however, and then to bury them in a mass of other information is to say to the reader with a certain infectious calm: yes, mass murder took place, but it's not that important—it should weigh very little in our final judgments; it should affect very little what we do in the world.

But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world—by a teacher, a writer, anyone—is a judgment. The judgment that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.

The prosecuting attorney, in his plea to the jury, accused me of saying on a public platform at a public meeting, "To hell with the courts, we know what justice is." He told a great truth when he lied, for if he had searched the innermost recesses of my mind he could have found that thought, never expressed by me before, but which I express now, "To hell with your courts, I know what justice is

Our ethos is all that we currently hold to be true. It is what we act upon. It governs our manners, our business, and our politics.

It was the job of education, he said, to smash through this make-believe and give black people a realistic picture of themselves and of the world.

To state the facts, however, and then to bury them in a mass of other information is to say to the reader with a certain infectious calm: yes, mass murder took place, but it's not that important—it should weigh very little in our final judgments; it should affect very little what we do in the world.

That, being as blunt as I can, is my approach to the history of the United States.

History is important. If you don't know history, it's as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, those in power can tell you anything and you have no way of checking up on it.