Quotes About Truth

It is hard to speak the truth about valued national institutions. But when they are not fit for purpose, we must speak out.

I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character - you try to be yourself.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

We have a set of core values. Honesty, respect.

When he spoke, he illuminated a truth I had always yearned for and yet always run from. I am known as an authority on the holy texts, and yet when he spoke, I realized I knew nothing. And what I did know, I had cloaked in my own selfish interpretations. In so doing, I had turned the truth into lies.

but the truth is this. Peter opened his heart and mind to the Spirit's movement and acted as he was directed. Nothing more. We are merely hands and feet for the Spirit's use.

Oh, a heart's a poor choice to follow. It's so easily hoodwinked.

We must share his truth—to change our world. To make it a place filled with love rather than hate. With peace, rather than war. With mercy, rather than revenge. With holiness, rather than evil.

Don't be fooled. Charlie remembers things the way he wants to remember them. I suppose we all do...And then we spend the rest of our lives basing the way we think about our families on what we THOUGHT happened--instead of what really did.

from John. 'My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

The conversion of all truths into questions of power has attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false.

don't fuck it up with pompous bullshit; the demise of Rolling Stone would leave a nasty hole. Sincerely, Hunter S. Thompson Woody Creek, Colorado

We don't need leaders who wear flag pins in their lapel, but rather men and women who have the guts to tell us the truth.

What is our experience, but the reflected truth of our misapprehensions and short-falls? And also the grace of our beauty and strength, and the wise choices that make up our character?

Todas las historias militares que glorifican a los grandes generales simplifican en exceso la prosaica verdad: los vencedores de las guerras del pasado no fueron siempre los ejércitos que disponían de los mejores generales y las mejores armas, sino que a menudo fueron simplemente aquellos que portaban los gérmenes más desagradables para transmitirlos a sus enemigos.

Hence one can think of a crisis as a moment of truth: a turning point, when conditions before and after that "moment" are "much more" different from one another than before and after "most" other moments.

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