Quotes About Truth

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What's really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.

It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me.

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

The best feedback is what we don't want to hear.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it that way." -The Host

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.