Quotes About Truth

We should not take part in acting a lie any more than in telling a lie. We should not say that men are equal where they are not equal, nor proceed upon the assumption that there is an equality where it does not exist; but we should strive to bring about a measurable equality, at least to the extent of preventing the inequality which is due to force or fraud.

The loud-mouthed upholder of popular rights who attacks wickedness only when it is allied with wealth, and who never publicly assails any misdeed, no matter how flagrant, if committed nominally in the interest of labor, has either a warped mind or a tainted soul, and should be trusted by no honest man.

I do not think partisanship should ever obscure the truth.

What I cannot understand about the Russian is the way he will lie when he knows perfectly well that you know he is lying.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.

We spend our youth hunting for the reality we think lies on the other side of our illusions. What we find at the other end of our search is what lies on the other side of the movie screen: a dark and desolate space that only reveals the unreality of what we pursued. So we spend our adulthood trying to recapture the illusions. Few of us do.

Nothing is always absolutely so

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

This was not completely true. I had run so fast that I still had a stitch in my side, but I did not want to be left out of their confraternity of guilt.

I hate you, Asher Adams," she cried desperately, wanting it to be true, knowing it to be an out-and-out lie. "I love the way you hate me," he whispered in a sexy voice.

Made sure you saw my feet of clay.

Strange that it was so hard to tell much about a person with no clothes. Clothes gave you clues. Tossed

Someone once told her she was ever-morphing. That wasn't it at all. She revealed too much. And most people, she'd come to realize, didn't want that much reality. Maddie

A man who evades his own conscience is a dupe.

Everything is as real as nothing, whatever way the nothing itself is defined.

God is as real as mind and the mind is as real as nature.

Nature hides a man many things; but the man hides the nature itself. Nature decides when to show a man what; man decides what to show the society how.

The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by the reason.

The truth exists at the junction between good and bad.

Truth exists: whatever a man not able to tell is actually a truth!

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.