Quotes About Truth

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows

We sold ourselves for love but now we are free I'm so sorry for that ghost I made you be Only one of us was real and that was me

To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.

I'm old and the mirrors don't lie.

better than wild is secretly wild

BLESSED ARE YOU WHO HAS given each man a shield of loneliness so that he cannot forget you. You are the truth of loneliness, and only your name addresses it. Strengthen my loneliness that I may be healed in your name, which is beyond all consolations that are uttered on this earth. Only in your name can I stand in the rush of time, only when this loneliness is yours can I lift my sins toward your mercy.

I write to murder the selves that whisper untruths to me.

I DRAW ASIDE THE CURTAIN. You mock us with the beauty of your world.

Don't write about ideas ... write about convictions of the heart.

The truth of the line overwhelms all other considerations" 1/24/03

I read the bill of human rights And some of it was true But there wasn't any burden left So I'm laying it on you

Do not dress in those rags for me I know you are not poor;

I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the lord of song With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah

After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, "Lies - damned lies - and statistics," still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of.

The definition of truth is an endless, complex pursuit, and good men and women have suffered the pain of both controversy and error. Intellectual, emotional, and political roadblocks may slow up people like Cyril for a time. But their lives taken as a whole are monuments to honesty and courage.

I do not think we could determine the truth of what had happened in history by having the Quorum of the Twelve vote on it.

Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.

As the psychologist Jonathan Haidt put it, there are two ways to get at the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer.

there are two ways to get at the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer. Scientists gather evidence, look for regularities, form theories explaining their observations, and test them. Attorneys begin with a conclusion they want to convince others of and then seek evidence that supports it, while also attempting to discredit evidence that doesn't.

Kant said, there is Das Ding an sich , a thing as it is, and there is Das Ding für uns , a thing as we know it.

Dershowitz may have felt justified in misleading the jury because, in his words, "the courtroom oath—'to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth'—is applicable only to witnesses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges don't take this oath…indeed, it is fair to say the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole truth.