Quotes About Truth

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.

My mother always said to me, 'Right makes might.' At last, I can believe her.

I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.

The happy family is a myth for many.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

Everywhere you look you see people searching for love but they're looking in the wrong places. God is love, and they will never find what they're looking for until they find Him.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.