Quotes About Truth

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

You'll often find that people's declared preferences - what they say they want - are far different from their revealed preferences - what they actually do.

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.

People see what they want to see.

The truth will set you free...unless you want to know the truth about who killed JFK.

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

A beautiful heart wants to know God and gets to know him through his Word.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.

-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.

Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it.

God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.