Quotes About Truth

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

You have to let your music be true and then people who want to adopt it as that, they take it on and they love it, and it changes their world.

Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.

There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we want to name schools and streets after.

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see.

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

For me, I focus on trying to get it right and be as fair as possible. There's not much else I can do. People will believe what they want - facts be damned.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.

The blind see what they want to see.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She's hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.

Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.