Quotes About Truth

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

Neil Young once said that it's more about having an authentic voice than a good voice, though of course Neil has a great voice.

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

There are only two kinds of people in this world... those who pick their nose... and liars. [Joshua, age 9]

am not exaggerating; it can be scary to see what some people will believe in order to feel superior.

Dullards would have you believe that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... but to a mathematical mind, the impossible is simply a theorem yet to be solved. We must not eliminate the impossible, we must conquer it, suborn it to our purpose.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

I write the truth because I love it and because there is no living creature whose anger I fear or whose praise I court." ~ Nellie Bly, The Evening World, 1895

There are so many times when many of us have found ourselves living a tremendous lie when we could be living a tremendous life.

What you know in your head and what you say out loud are not always the same.

Sometimes you've got a story you need to find the courage to tell.

It was horrible how the hardest things could be the truth.

You can know things all you like, but that doesn't mean you believe them.

You can know all the things you like, but that does not mean you believe them.

She was wrong." I shrugged. "I can say that," I said. "It's harder to believe it.

You can know all the things you like, but that doesn´t mean you believe them

I don't want to tell you a lie, and I don't know the truth.

I wouldn't have told Susan I loved her even if I thought it was true. Words can be dangerous, as destructive as bombs.

You can know things all you like, but it doesn't mean that you believe them.

I don't know what to say,' she said after a pause. 'I don't want to tell you a lie, and I don't know the truth.' It was maybe the most honest thing anyone had ever said to me.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.