Quotes About Truth

The organ played a familiar introduction. Ever since his truculent fourth form at Berners Hall, he could not bring himself to sing a hymn. However sweet the melodies or the rhythm of the lines he could not get past the embarrassment of their blatant or childish untruths. But the point was not to believe but to join in, to be part of the community.

Ah, mirosul am?rui al pielii unei alte persoane, acest veÅŸmânt menit s? ascund? miezul de fecale.

One could go on, but with diminishing returns. MacArthur was a serial confabulator

La información se ha convertido, sobre todo, en una mercancía. Ya no tiene una función cívica. Aunque algunos todavía lo creamos, pero ¿no somos solamente un recuerdo? ¿Somos reales? ¿No somos acaso virtuales?

Serán necesarios largos años, escribe Václav Havel, antes de que los valores que se apoyan en la verdad y la autenticidad morales se impongan y se lleven por delante al cinismo político; pero, al final, siempre acaban venciendo. Ésta debe ser también la paciente apuesta del verdadero periodismo.

La posverdad supone también la relativización de lo cierto, la intrascendencia de la objetividad de los datos, y la supremacía del discurso emotivo.

History lies at the core of every conflict. A true and unbiased understanding of the past offers the possibility of peace. The distortion or manipulation of history, in contrast, will only sow disaster.

Are you out of your mind? It's not polite to lie to your best friend. It's a possibility.

The woman frowned. I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting them? He got it from me.

All men are liars. All women are liars, too.

It wasn't real. I deluded myself. I had this aching need to be loved and it was screwing with my head. Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you'll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he appears.

People lie for many reasons: to save themselves, to get out of trouble, to avoid hurting someone's feelings. Manipulators lie to get what they want. Narcissists lie to make themselves seem grand to others and themselves. Recovering alcoholics lie to safeguard their tattered reputation. And those who love us most lie to us most of all, because life is a bumpy ride and they want to smooth it out as much as possible.

Some things were constant in the universe. Two and two didn't always equal four, but every water-based species at some point had heated water and thrown some plants into it.

And those who love us most lie to us most of all

Yes, I want your bullshit.

By deciding to live our lives based on solid values and unwavering truth, we can leave a legacy for the young men and boys who want nothing more than to follow in our footsteps.

That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.

Young people are craving something real, craving authenticity.

I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.

All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.

Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.

It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business.

When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.