Quotes About Truth

Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.

Show me any health professional - great and not so great - who says they don't make mistakes or haven't made one in years, and I'll show you someone who has trouble admitting the truth.

I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

I started with things that I was troubled by or confused by or interested in, and then I wrote stories to try to puzzle my way through it. But the question is not how to represent war, because it's an abstract thing that's felt differently for all the characters.

If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that's the only way to tell the story, then I will reluctantly tell the story that way.

When you say 'Monster Trucks,' people don't think monsters inside of trucks.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.

My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

Some stories are true that never happened.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

We can never be afraid to stand up for what is right, no matter what others may say. And sometimes, if that means taking a lonely road, if what we are standing for is true, then perhaps moonlight or sunshine will light our way and make it less lonely.