Quotes About Truth

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

They can have their little ceremony. We know the truth.

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see..

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

La mayoría de los muertos callan. Ya no dicen nada. Literalmente ya lo han dicho todo. Pero no sucede así con los poetas. Los poetas siguen hablando

the psychobabble spelled out in magazines, the imaginary divans we would never wish to lie on ourselves, all they do is hold up mirrors in which not a single truth is revealed, because the truth is always trounced by the lie. Was Heinz a liar by saying nothing? Did he drink because he never stopped telling lies?

He thought that, unlike most people, he had simply refused to let himself be brainwashed by newspapers, television, eschatologies, and philosophies into believing that "in spite of everything" this was an acceptable world simply because it existed. It would never become acceptable. Beloved maybe, acceptable never.

Opinion is worth nothing. Where is your evidence?" (Atalanta Worthington)

The lady denied it. That is that.

It is so difficult to be honest when someone has died; it's as if truth stops at the grave even when the lies continue to hurt the living.

the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show people as I see them.

I'll tell you a secret. A lot of times, parents are not the best at seeing their children clearly.

Journalists," she explained in a civics speech about dream careers, "chronicle our everyday lives. They reveal truths and information that the public deserves to know, and they provide a record for posterity, so that future generations can learn from our mistakes and improve upon our achievements.

But the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show people as I see them. So in the end I'd probably just frustrate us both." She

How did you explain to someone—how did you explain to a child, a child you loved—that someone they adored was not to be trusted? She

Journalists...chronicle our everyday lives. They reveal truths and information that the public deserves to know, and they provide a record for posterity, so that future generations can learn from our mistakes and improve upon our achievements.

Too unpatriotic, right, to tell you the horrible things our country's done before. The camps at Manzanar, or what happens at the border. They probably teach you that most plantation owners were kind to their slaves and that Columbus discovered America, don't they?

At last she turned to the only source she could think of: her mother. Her mother was a journalist, at least in name. True, her mother mostly covered small stories, but journalists found things out.

She was always doing that, telling him stories. Prying open cracks for magic to seep in, making the world a place of possibility. After she left, he had stopped believing all those fantasies. Wispy, false dreams that disintegrated in the morning's light. Now it occurs to him that, perhaps, there might be truth in them after all.

rainbow of different, beautiful lies. But now, seeing the picture

She knew that he was telling the truth, that this had been the truth for a long, long time.

Because telling you what really happened would be espousing un-American views, and we certainly wouldn't want that.