Quotes About Truth

The politics of the last twenty years in Britain are liars' politics. The problem is we are ruled by the weak and the small-minded, who are too stupid to know that they are weak and small-minded.

Well Joe, the truth is that you're not a bad guy, but you have been a bit mysogynistic and homophobic. So your punishment is to make you walk the earth as a homosexual ghost buggering your old mates and aquaitances.

Quizá me haya acostumbrado tanto a las mentiras, que la verdad me suena indecentemente falsa. Pero bueno.

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don't think we speak the truth to power for power's ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it.

Perché adesso so che fare le cose non ti ferisce:resti ferito se le eviti.

ona aÅŸktan söz ettim. o ise aÅŸk?n din gibi bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunu, asl?nda var olmad??? halde sistemin bizi daha kolay kullanmak için uydurduÄŸu bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunu söyledi.

You can't lie to your soul.

We all see what we want to see.

It felt strange telling the truth, he'd got so comfortable with deception. It made him feel real, and consequently vulnerable. tended to look at ma behaviour and ways of modifying it, rather than determining its causes.

If we jist be oorselves, n be honest, thill nivir gie either ay us the fuckin joab.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

Religion will never show the way.

There seemed to be that same fierce quest after truth, the same unafraid penetration, the same feeling that character is beauty, no matter how sordid it may appear.

there is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris.

sculpture bore the relationship the truth did to falsehood... if a painter blundered, what did he do? He patched and repaired and covered over with another layer of paint. The sculptor on the contrary had to see within th marble the form that it held. He could not glue back broken parts.

Even in your kindness there is a cruel revelation. Life is cruel, never love.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

They were scientists enough to admit that they were wrong.

Encyclopedias don't win wars.