Quotes About Truth

Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something.

The sad truth is that the truth is sad, and what you want does not matter.

The sad truth is the truth is sad.

Most men would kill the truth if truth would kill their religion.

No creed can be stretched to the size of truth; no church can be made as large as man.

A dogma will thrive in soil where the truth could not get root.

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

Or was the truth - like so many truths - not any one of the envisaged possibilities?

Enrolment is tricky. You are telling lies to highly skilled liars.

Doesn't he know that all the world's governments tell lies all day every day, and show no sign of contrition even when they are caught out in such untruths?

You're joking, sir.' 'I never joke, Chico. The truth is quite adequately hilarious.

It's easy to forgive the summer rain; like first love, white lies or blarney, there's no malignity in it.

Truth can be dispensed with when fantasy dominates. p.63

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Be as radical as reality.

For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.