Quotes About Truth

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Existing outside of irony is so hard.

I would describe myself as outspoken. Not political. Outspoken about what I want to say. There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.

I've always been outspoken. I've always been honest. I've always said things that maybe other people were afraid to say.

My sister is outspoken and brave, while I am not. However, I will always support the truth.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

I am honest; I speak the truth, and I sometimes probably go overboard and speak my mind.

There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part of their work.

My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.

It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Law and politics are often overly complicated because there are people that don't want the rest of us to know what's going on.

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

Most people, they get overwhelmed by the religious stories, the nationalist stories, by the economic stories of the day, and take these stories to be the reality.

An old Buddhist saying: BELIEVE nothing because it is said to be of divine origin. BELIEVE nothing because a wise man said it. BELIEVE nothing because its belief is generally held. BELIEVE nothing because it is written in ancient books. BELIEVE nothing because someone else believes it. BUT believe only what you yourself know to be true.

Sincerity is all that counts -- it's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are sincere. They can't all be right.

There is nothing on earth that complex

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream. Maybe only then could a man like Ingersoll make sense.

If I learned one thing that day, it was that Peter Bartholomew, Arnulf, even Saint John the Divine had all been wrong. The world did not have to end with ten-horned beasts and dragons, angels and fantastical monsters. The prophets who foretold those things had succumbed to the extravagance of their imaginations, and it had played them false. Nothing on earth could be so terrible as men.

Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell us more about the past than ruined walls and broken pots.