Quotes About Truth

Oddly enough, I didn't recall feeling that way the week before. I wasn't certain how this revelation came about, but revelations are like that; they just smack you across the face one day, and you know you've arrived at the truth without even knowing you were looking for it. What you do about it is another matter. I

every cop knows, lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

truth needs two people to make it work—the speaker and the listener.

When you're dealing with people who have no moral center, no loyalty to anyone but themselves, you don't always get the logical results you expect, or the truth that you paid for.

I always thought that voluntary arms compliance inspections were sort of like a suspected murderer leading me on a guided tour of his house. No, Detective, there's nothing in that closet of any interest. Now, let me show you my patio.

Pravda, as you know, means 'truth,' and Izvestia means 'news,' and I've heard it said that there is no news in the Truth and no truth in the News.

early to bed, early to rise, makes a man sneaky and full of lies.

Eu sou o cínico da família. E os cínicos enxergam o óbvio.

El enamorado es sincero hasta cuando miente.

Até então julgara-se feliz e, de repente, descobre que sua felicidade não existe

There are some things about oneself that it's not very nice to wake up to.

If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.

You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe it is the only reason you do not see it.

Stop! Hersey cried out. Stop! something appalling is happening to all of us. We're saying things we'll regret for the rest of our lives. We're merely speaking the truth [William Compline] It's the sort that shouldn't be spoken. It's a beastly lop-sided exaggerated truth.

We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.

It is not the fault of the mirror if it reflects our blemishes as clearly as our beauty.

The statesman is therefore like one of the heroes in classical drama who has had a vision of the future but who cannot transmit it directly to his fellow-men and who cannot validate its truth. Nations learn only by experience; they 'know' only when it is too late to act. But statesmen must act as if their intuition were already experience, as if their aspiration were truth.

Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant.

We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.

I learned very quickly that even when I kept no secrets from you, you still didn't want to hear the truth.

When everyone feels free to tell you the truth, respect for you dwindles… A wise prince should take another course: choose wise men for your advisors, and allow only them the liberty of speaking the truth to the prince, and only on matters about which you ask, and nothing else. But you should question them about everything, listen patiently to their opinions, then form your own conclusions later.

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.

The people, as Cicero says, may be ignorant, but they can recognize the truth and will readily yield when some trustworthy man explains it to them.

The gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.