Quotes About Truth

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you stand.

We know that, sooner or later, reckless government actions and policies have consequences. That when government corrupts the truth and breaks faith with the American people, the entire fabric of our society - everything we believe in and count on - is in jeopardy.

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying to be as honest as possible.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.

It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.

If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive - sorry, I had to say it.

I'm sorry - I know America is supposed to be the land of the dreams and hopes, but it's like, when was that actually a real thing? I think from the very beginning it was all a lie, and it still kind of is. Stop trying to sell the picket fence, because there's another backyard here that you haven't looked at.

I'm sorry Alex Jones, but the content that InfoWars has been putting out is just flat out lies. You are entitled to say whatever it is that you want, that is fine; you are not entitled to a megaphone if that information is false.

'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

Even as Jews and Christians profoundly disagree about the truth, they are united in the belief that there is a truth to be sought.

I've always sought to get after something that's foundational in people. That comes through my faith, through my belief in life, through trying to hit something that's true every time. I think that's really where you move people, when you touch on something that's true, that's not based on fluff or based on a moment or a movement.

We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.