Quotes About Truth

When the facts become clear, our choices become obvious.

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained … all existing things are … imaginary.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Torture numbers and they will confess to anything

Luke I am your father" -Patrick Rain

Allander continued, his words taking on the color of a rant. "Your educators will embark with you on a supposed journey for the truth, but they'll deceive you. They'll say things that mean nothing—they always do—and you'll be forced to nod and agree as if they're profound.

Expert witnesses are like whores, but more expensive." Rayner

But he did show remorse," Travers said. "The posing of the bodies." "I don't think so. Remorseful killers usually cover the faces." "But not always." "But not always," Jade agreed. "I just don't think it fits. I think the positioning of the bodies mocks what he perceives to be the parents' hypocrisy. He left them as he sees them: blind to the truth, but going through the motions as if everything's all right.

If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone's a liar.

Some of this story is completely true. And some of it isn't. Like truth, evil comes in all sorts of flavors. Some bitter. Some deceptively sweet. Sometimes it comes with a heavy price. While most people don't invite evil into their lives, the dirty little secret is that an invitation isn't necessary. Locked doors don't matter. Neither do fancy security systems. Evil is kind of amazing when you think about it. She knows how to get inside.

No one speaks the truth to anyone anymore. Lies either by omission or purposefully have become our national pastime. Backstabbing is an Olympic sport. Or at least it should be.

He always told his girl, "If only these walls could talk... the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone's a liar." But the walls didn't talk.

She later said that she had only told the police "like ten percent of the bad stuff." Investigators, however, understood that 10 percent of a nightmare is still a nightmare.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real?

All experience is subjective.

It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

Remembering a narrative alters it.

Self-knowledge, she thought ruefully, is mostly bad news.

the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

Behold the One beholding you and smiling." It is precisely because we have such an overactive disapproval gland ourselves that we tend to create God in our own image. It is truly hard for us to see the truth that disapproval does not seem to be part of God's DNA. God is just too busy loving us to have any time left for disappointment.

How much greater is the God we have than the one we think we have.

Letter 1 To the princess of the elephants, I disappeared exactly one year ago. On that day I received a letter. It called me back to the place where my life with the elephants began Please forgive me, for the silence between us has been unbroken for one year. I will never be more of myself than in these letters. They are my maps of the bird path, and they are all that I know to be true.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant