Quotes About Truth

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.

People can say whatever they want about whatever they want.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.

People want the truth, even if they disagree.

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

People see what they want to see when they need to.

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.