Quotes About Truth

I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.

May God bless and keep all soldiers, young and old, and may that same God open the eyes of all political leaders to the truth that most wars are a confession of failure—the failure of diplomacy and negotiation and common sense and, in most cases, of leadership.

No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of public opinion.

Newspaper accounts must not only be studied, but, occasionally refuted.

Jefferson said he only read the advertisements in the newspaper, because it was there he was most likely to find the truth.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

I know the place I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

EMMA: We're lovers. ROBERT: Ah, yes. I thought it might be something like that. Something along those lines. EMMA: When? ROBERT: What? EMMA: When did you think? ROBERT: Yesterday. Only yesterday. When I saw his handwriting on the letter. Before yesterday I was quite ignorant. EMMA: Ah. (pause) I'm sorry. ROBERT: Sorry? (silence) How long? EMMA: Some time. ROBERT: Yes, but how long exactly? EMMA: Five years. ROBERT: Five years?

The majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lies. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.

I can't believe that what anyone is at this moment saying has ever happened has never happened. Nothing has ever happened. Nothing. This is the only thing that has ever happened.

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.

Is it ever acceptable to be angry at God? I would suggest that it is not only acceptable, it may be one of the hallmarks of a truly religious person. It puts honesty ahead of flattery.

through the lives and souls of specific individuals. The truth is, life is unfair, and we would do well to come to terms with that fact.

God is a God I can believe in.

Any God worth worshipping should prefer honest anger to hypocritical praise.

After consulting census books, cemetery records, city directories, and various other documents, he definitively established that the story the dying Carlson told about her background was true in every detail. She was not Belle Gunness.[

In our own time, when child abduction has become epidemic and even our milk cartons are imprinted with the faces of the missing, that truth has been confirmed with dismaying regularity.

Empirical evidence, however, has little effect on irrational belief.

For colour is one of the most rapturous truths that can be revealed to man.