Quotes About Truth

Sometimes the crowd is right; often it is wrong. It remains for science to read the balance.

That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live - lives.

The truth is bigger than the stories people tell themselves and bigger than the lies they live with.

If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.

Somewhere between the fact we know and the anxiety we feel is the reality we live."5

The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.

We must look at the facts squarely, not to flounder in a bitter nostalgia of pain but to redeem a democratic promise rooted in the living ingredients of our own history.

He discovered that if he said something often enough, no matter how untrue, people would believe it. Small lies were for the timid. The key to telling a big lie was to do it with conviction. He

beliefs are perhaps more allegorical than factual.

Indiana, where truth was no defense, and the First Amendment had no force of law.

But even if the Fourth of July celebrants in Kokomo knew about the Big Lie of Stephenson's life, would it have mattered? They believed because they wanted to believe.

After dangling in a summer breeze for eight hours, the bodies were cut down by a deputy at dawn. The woman at the roadside robbery scene later said there had been no rape; she had made the story up.

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

He discovered that if he said something often enough, no matter how untrue, people would believe it.

The problem with history was that it was written by the survivors, and they usually wrote in the sunshine on harvest day, from victory stands.

The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

If [more] information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. —ALBERT

Las reglas de sentido común del «mundo real» son una frágil colección de ilusiones reforzadas por la sociedad.

If you want to be this brutally honest in the U.S., I suggest first reading my friend A.J. Jacobs's Esquire piece titled "I Think You're Fat.

Suffering is a moment of clarity, when you can no longer deny the truth of a situation and are forced into uncomfortable change.

Reality is negotiable.

Dime algo que sea verdad y con lo que muy poca gente esté de acuerdo".»

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. —RICHARD P. FEYNMAN, Nobel Prize–winning physicist