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Quotes About Truth

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
~ Larry Wall
People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.
~ Laurel Nakadate
I think that ties in with issues of identity as well - that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there's other times we say, "You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part."
~ Lauren Myracle
I think young people really do care. They want to build their life on something that's solid and makes sense, that's rational, that's not built on mythology, make-believe and wishful thinking.
~ Lee Strobel
I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.
~ Lois Lowry
As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.
~ Louie Giglio
I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.
~ Lynne Tillman
You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?
~ Madonna Ciccone
Some people see what they want to see.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The human animal only sees what it wants to see.
~ Marcia Muller
Why is it that the most important stuff to listen to is almost always the stuff we don't want to hear?
~ Mardy Grothe
It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.
~ Margaret Atwood
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
~ Mark Strand
The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.
~ Mark Twain
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
~ Martha Beck
There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear.
~ Martha Ostenso
People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.
~ Mary Steenburgen
Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.
~ Mason Cooley
Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically.
~ Matthew Carter
In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.
~ Matthew Sweet