Quotes About Truth

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

The power that flows from His name, the name Jesus, will be in proportion to our love for His Word.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.

It's all true; only the facts have been changed.

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.

Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was.

Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Things aren't what they used to be and probably never were.