Quotes About Truth

All that is not God is death.

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.

We are betrayed by what is false within

There is no comfort in the truth , pain is all you find.

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

Si la hipocresía es la distancia que hay entre nuestros principios y nuestro comportamiento, es muy fácil no ser nunca un hipócrita; basta con no tener ningún principio.

our loyalties are to the aesthetics, not the evidence. We are seduced by the way things look, and overlook the way they function. But beauty is seldom truth, and truth is seldom beauty.

There you go; seems to me you're right!

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

I think there is no light in the world but the world and I think there is light

It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.

Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.