Quotes About Truth

Sometimes the truth does hurt, Jimmy. But I'll take the truth over speculation and just plain wrong information any day. Once you accept anything less than that, the whole world goes to Hell.

to bring him back, alive rather than dead." Puller kept his mouth shut. "I want to know what you've found out

People can lie with words, but their faces, and in particular their eyes, give them away. They

David Baldacci

And after the hit on the gridiron his filter had been vastly reduced, so it was even harder for him not to always tell the literal truth. He instinctively craved precision and was reluctant to accept anything less than that.

could lie as well

David Baldacci

I let circumstances beyond my control define me. That's not good. That's worse than lying to yourself. It's like you're lying to your soul.

lawyer," Caleb

David Baldacci

Life was a shell game. The winners could just hide the truth better than everybody else.

David Baldacci

the parlance of the perception management field, the world had firmly entered the "gripper" stage, where the majority of people embraced as true everything they were told. It was far easier to accomplish this than most would care or dare to believe. It was easy to manipulate people. Folks had been doing it pretty much forever with results that had taken the world right to the edge of destruction.

I like to verify things independently. It's not like any of us are infallible.

David Baldacci

prevaricate. As a detective and now a PI, he had to

David Baldacci

Social media has absolutely nothing to do with the truth. It has to do with making shitloads of money off ads trying to sell people crap they don't need. But the terrible by-product of that is giving a global platform to the absolute worst elements of society. The result is that 'truth' is whatever you can convince people it is. It's exactly what Orwell wrote about." "How does this country survive, then?

the individual can find truth by using his powers of observation and reason instead of blindly following tradition.

Life is what it is, Alex. You just have to accept it, because you have no other choice.

You're lying to me, aren't you?" "Pretty much, yeah." "Thanks for being honest about your dishonesty.

Social media has absolutely nothing to do with the truth. It has to do with making shitloads of money off ads trying to sell people crap they don't need. But the terrible by-product of that is giving a global platform to the absolute worst elements of society. The result is that 'truth' is whatever you can convince people it is. It's exactly what Orwell wrote about.

One underlying philosophy in Ecclesiastes is that the individual can find truth by using his powers of observation and reason instead of blindly following tradition. You acquire wisdom and focus that wisdom to figure out the world on your own.

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. - John Puller