Quotes About Truth

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

There is absolutely nothing sacred about freedom of information," he said, "when it can be used to undermine social progress.

I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. —Oliver Wendell Holmes

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

is magic in being in the present in your life. I'm always amazed at the power of clear observation simply about what's going on, what's true. Finding out the exact details of your personal finances, clarifying the historical data about the company you're buying, or getting the facts about who really said what to whom in an interpersonal conflict can be constructive, if not downright healing.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled. --Mina

It happened so long ago I can't even be sure it happened as I say it did. Stories change in the telling, memory makes up as much as it knows. We were very small. The things we saw were all mixed up with the things we dreamed and the things we were scared of.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

Anyway, in the end, I don't really believe in Heaven at all and i don't believe in perfect angles. I think that this might be the only Heaven there can possibly be, this world we live in now, but we haven't quite realized it yet.

He narrows his eyes. "Is this true?" He sighs. "It is, isn't it? That's all I need.

Words are too easy," he says. He opens his book. "What looks like truth and sounds like truth might be nothing but a dream, nothing but a story I wish had happened.

I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tail.

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

Anyone who believes they have converted a person simply because they have silenced them is badly mistaken We must try not to be drawn into the game of deceiving the deceivers

The world is complicated, so people seek complicated solutions. And there's nothing wrong with that because simple answers don't usually work. But sometimes the answers are simple and people still refuse to see them. - Edgar Roy

He got into the car thinking that people were interesting. Sometimes they just couldn't distinguish the truth from bullshit. Sometimes they didn't want to. It was often easier just to believe a lie.

She works in the intelligence field. They're trained to lie and sell it like the truth. They obviously undergo the same indoctrination as politicians.

It is more than a mere rule, for rules can be changed. It is truth.

Even your kids wised up and realized you're an idiot. An evil one, but still an idiot. - Amy, to Isabel

I don't believe in ghosts or magic." "I don't either, Mary. But I do know one thing." "What's that?" "That this guy is not going to get away.

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When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it.

Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible.