Quotes About Truth

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

I have never once claimed that I have a Combat Action Badge. I have never claimed that I have a Purple Heart. What I have claimed is that I have served in a combat zone.

Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.

People have to be pushed out of their comfort zones to be able to see things for what they are.

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.

True freedom lies in the realization and calm acceptance of the fact that there may very well be no perfect answer.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.

He will hew the line of right, let the chips fall where they may.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue.

Good counsel has no price.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my sons illegitimate.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest, said "She'll never admit it, but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.