Quotes About Truth

There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

If my enemy speaks the truth I will not say because it is spoken by my enemy I will not listen.

Looking at a king's mouth, one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.

It began to dawn on me that although fiction was undoubtedly fictitious it could also be true or false, not with the truth or falsehood of a news item but as to its disinterestedness, its intention, its integrity.

Our violent, narcissistic, noncommittal, "me first" culture is simply the logical and predictable expression of "truth" as a relative, subjective, unverifiable concept.

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

Satan is a liar, and depression is his cell phone. Next time he calls, hang up!

Attention Morte. I have a question. Do you have a destiny? A purpose? Is Annah still wearing clothes? Affirmatory. Then the answer is yes.

Sharon claims "God told me this," and Marcus

A small thing, yes, but the world was rich with small things that in truth were signs of great importance.

The plain unvarnished reality that we cannot escape who we are and most of the time we die as we lived.

She knew the truth of men and women and booze: it rarely ended well for either gender, but it was the women who wound up raped.

crime? I was in trouble because a man had said I was not clean there. He was lying. He only said that because he was not clean there and I told him we should shower before we fucked.

I pray for unity among those that love You. I pray that You'd open their eyes so that they can see Your truth. I pray for Your hand of protection and guidance.

The past is like grace. It's not enough to know about it. We all know what happened back there. Grace allows you to see yourself in light of the past, not in the shadow of it. You see the truth about yourself, your need. On

And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

You can influence Tony. You can pray for him and ask God to work in his heart. You can love him with the kind of love only God can give you. But you can't make decisions for him. You can't change him. You can only allow God to change you. You can change the way you think about him and yourself and God. You can believe the truth about the power of God and join Him in what He wants to do.

There're some things that can't be helped. They just are. You either live with them or you don't. Simple as that. There's nothing simple about it. You got that right. You certainly got that right.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

Racism towards Muslims is as evil as anti-Semitism, but try to express this simple truth on a partisan Palestinian or Israeli website.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to "genuine" objectivity.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. —JAMES BALDWIN

Lies are considered true. Truth is considered seditious.