Quotes About Truth

mattered little to Rutherford's avid readers that this supposed Rhodes quotation was a total fabrication, or that every one of her "facts" and "truths" cited above was false.

The romantic glorification of the Army of Northern Virginia by generations of Lost Cause writers has obscured this truth.

James M. McPherson

But this truth actually supports rather than contravenes the Beard and Moore theses. Most

Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.

because in her heart it was proof that God was forever generous with His gifts: hope, love, truth, and the belief in the indestructability of the good in all people.

when folks wanna believe something, the truth ain't got no place in that compartment.

didn't matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.

Fact is, I never knowed a Negro from that day to this but who couldn't lie to themselves about their own evil while pointing out the white man's wrong, and I weren't no exception.

The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him.

I come to enjoy them talks, for even though I'd gotten used to living a lie—being a girl—it come to me this way: Being a Negro's a lie, anyway. Nobody sees the real you. Nobody knows who you are inside. You just judged on what you are on the outside whatever your color. Mulatto, colored, black, it don't matter. You just a Negro to the world.

The Old Man was a lunatic, but he was a good, kind lunatic, and he couldn't no more be a sane man in his transactions with his fellow white man than you and I can bark like a dog, for he didn't speak their language. He was a Bible man. A God man. Crazy as a bedbug. Pure to the truth, which will drive any man off his rocker. But at least he knowed he was crazy. At least he knowed who he was. That's more than I could say for myself.

Anytime he said something about the will of God, it meant he weren't going to cooperate or do nothing but as he saw fit. He had no intentions of leaving Kansas Territory or turning himself in or paying attention to what any white soldier told him. He would tell a fib in a minute to help his cause. He was like everybody in war. He believed God was on his side. Everybody got God on their side in a war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.

how long could I go on before she'd find out who I was? She'd know it before long. Besides, how can somebody love you if you don't know who you is?

Truth is, lying come natural to all Negroes during slave time, for no man or woman in bondage ever prospered stating their true thoughts to the boss.

The eggshell of appearance split.

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.

What a splendid liar! she breathed softly. Don't you believe in God? Kent winced. In a large, embracing sense, yes, he said. I believe in Him, for instance, as revealed to our senses in all that living, growing glory you see out there through the window Nature and I have become pretty good pals, and you see I've sort of built up a mother goddess to worship instead of a he-god. Sacrilege, maybe, but it's a great comfort at times. But you didn't come to talk religion?

Strange things are said to have happened in this world — some are said to be happening still — but half of them, if I'm any judge, are lies.

Storytellers do not convert their listeners; they do not move them into the territory of a superior truth. Ignoring the issue of truth and falsehood altogether, they offer only vision. Storytelling is therefore not combative; it does not succeed or fail. A story cannot be obeyed. Instead of placing one body of knowledge against another, storytellers invite us to return from knowledge to thinking, from a bounded way of looking to an horizonal way of seeing.

Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open. Have you been watching Oprah again?

Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.

Jeb: But I need to tell you something first. Max (thinking): That you are the devil incarnate?

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.