Quotes About Truth

I imagine sarcasm to be a backward slanting font, each word leaning away from rather than into the next. These days it is getting harder and harder to tell reality from distortion, truth from satire, especially on the Internet.

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question

The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings, and that freedom is "the soul's right to breathe."

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Concerns about democracy's future are better directed elsewhere, John Paul argues, for if "there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power.

People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

Simple Bible statements, apt illustrations, and pertinent anecdotes,

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

When a politician, on a subject implicating science says, 'the debate is over', you may be sure of two things: the debate is raging, and he is losing it.

Good actors, including political actors, do not deal in unrealities. Rather, they create realities that matter – perceptions, aspirations, allegiances.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.

First of all, be what you are.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity.