Quotes About Truth

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Don't quote me; that's what you heard, not what I said.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.

He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn list of good intentions.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.