Quotes About Truth

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.

Reality is the leading cause of stress.

You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, so I need to tell you that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

What seems right isn't always right, though, is it?

We can't fabricate our being, we can only receive it.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Only one thing is right, and that is the Truth, but nobody knows what it is. It is a thing that changes all the time, and then comes back to the same thing. -Old Yao

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all of the time.

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

He who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

I have found that it is not entirely safe, when one is misrepresented under his very nose, to allow the misrepresentation to go uncontradicted.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

I would then like to know how it comes about that when each piece of a story is true, the whole story turns out to be false?

It strikes me there is some difference between holding a man responsible for an act which he has not done, and holding him responsible for an act that he has done.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, you can take as fact the four words I'm about to speak—though I speak them with some regret, since I enjoy cryptozoological legends as much as the next man: There ain't no Nessie." This

Once an excuse has been deployed, brutal honesty is no longer an option.

I used to subscribe to the belief that a person's loved ones are the people who know them best. It wasn't until I had some life experience under my belt that I learned the premise couldn't be farther from the truth. Sometimes a person's loved ones are the last to know—or the last to acknowledge—a fault or weakness. That's especially true when you're Amish.

A dark heart sees the things that an honest one is blinded to by the nature of its own goodness.

He sighed. "You want to know if I love her." He reached over and tilted Sundara's face toward him. "Ask me a question I can answer. Ask me if I love you.

Sadly, God mentions no crowned nags in Proverbs.