Quotes About Truth

Liane Moriarty

Liane Moriarty

This is myself. You've always had some idea of me that doesn't exist.

Things aren't that simple," said Tiffany. "They are if we want them to be," said

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums. People always obediently smiled and tilted their heads when a camera was put in front of them. Perhaps seconds after the shutter clicked [they] sprang apart, avoiding each others' eyes, their smiles replaced by snarls.

He wasn't falling for the lie, she could tell. He didn't need to believe it as badly as her parents did.

You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.

Never spoil a good story with the facts.

All babies had that same wise look, as if they'd just come from another realm where they'd learned some beautiful truth they couldn't share.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

The great artifice of regarding small deviations from the truth as being the truth itself is at the same time the foundation of wit, where the whole thing would often collapse if we were to regard these deviations in a spirit of philosophical rigor.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.

The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.

It is some disaster for any mind to hold any one thing for truth that is untrue, however insignificant it be, or however honestly it be held. It is a greater disaster when the false prejudice bars the way to some truth behind it, which, but for it, would find an entrance to the soul; and the greatness of the disaster will in this case be measured by the importance of the excluded truth.

Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.

If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true.

And I call it like I see it and my glasses on. But most of yall dont get the picture less the flash is on.

I call ya how I see ya.