Quotes About Truth

His mother might not believe him, but here in the hospital, why, they would have to believe him. You couldn't have wolves running around loose in a hospital. No, they wouldn't allow that. Hospitals had rules, and one of them probably was NO WOLVES.

Who's to say what's tied to all this?" Gab asked. "What's natural and what's not? If it's real then it's part of the reality.

Don said, "By any chance did someone come in to confess while I was out, and just maybe you forgot to mention it?" Corrine said no one had.

That was reality and as is often the case, reality sucks.

As I said sir, no one is perfect. Apart from google of course.

If we think it is okay to cheat in exams, lie to a ticket collector in the train about our kids' ages and pay a bit of money to avoid a big traffic fine, then at some level we clearly don't care about eliminating corruption all that much. At

That was reality, and as is often the case with me, reality sucks.

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

With few words one can speak the truth.

Is Error, though unwittingly supported by a host of good men, stronger than Truth? Are Right and Wrong convertible terms, dependent upon popular opinion? Oh no!

Let papers speak and beards be silent.

98% of all statistics are made up.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Now the man in the street knows nothing of Biometrika: all he knows is that "you can prove anything by figures," though he forgets this the moment figures are used to prove anything he wants to believe.

The plural of anecdote is data.

Statistics can be made to prove anything — even the truth.

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.

Word is a four-letter word.

The Income Tax has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.

It would, said Biran, be much nearer the truth to say asservie à des organes. Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

A trembling in the bones carries often a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.