Quotes About Truth

if you just go along with what everybody else thinks, if you confuse popular consensus for an honest research process, you' re setting yourself up for failure.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Our tremendous drive for social acceptance and toward conformity in our time is causing us to train our children to be a generation of young liars who do not even realise they are lying. We train our children to be subtly dishonest almost from the crib. "Shh... don't cry in front of all these people.

Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O

All aspects of honor derive from honesty. A liar cannot truly be honorable, for where is the honor in deception?

Of course, you won't confirm or deny it, which means I'm probably right, since if I was wrong, you'd be gloating about it.

The lifeblood of good conspiracies is that you'll never find out; the lack of evidence keeps them fresh. No one's ever going to find out if I had my blood changed or not. The story is well beyond the reach of evidence or, if it never happened, my denials. But then, read on. I have stood back for many years from honestly addressing that burning topic.

Memory is fiction

It being a certain truth that those who who are born to be hanged will never be drowned.

The greatest adventure of our lives is discovering our true nature, who we really are. We may meander on our journey, but the path forward is always there.

What is truth? Truth is telling it like it really is. Truth is not a thing, but rather a relationship between our words or ideas and reality. Whether

And he had wondered if it would end that way for him too - one more ragged pilgrim on the road toward some bankrupt enlightenment, endlessly sorting information while the truth rolled on, untouched, beneath his very nose.

An old timer is a man who's had a lot of interesting experiences -- some of them true.

A drunken tongue tells what's on a sober mind.

A man who tells you he's no fool has his suspicions.

When a hen cackles, she's either layin' or lyin'.

The three most fatal diseases in the West are: small pox, cholera, and the ignorance to argue with a long-haired, whisky-drinkin' liar.

Secrets are easy to hear and hard to keep.

In so many introductory science classes, the chemist [Dudley Herschbach] observed, students encounter what they see as "a frozen body of dogma" that must be memorized and regurgitated. Yet in the "real science you're not too worried about the right answer... Real science recognizes that you have an advantage over practically any other human enterprise because what you are after- call it truth or understanding- waits patiently for you while you screw up.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

There's always the certainty that the opposite of what I might believe in might also be true.

With a clever and subtle lie, you were convinced to not exactly stop trusting in God, but to stop trusting exclusively in God. The

Real life is never so neat as the stories we choose to tell about it

The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions.