Quotes About Truth

You must always remember to check beneath the layers of things to find the truth.

Words are the most important thing we have. A few words, one word, can change history.

Jeffery Deaver

Somebody you busted?" Amanda asked matter-of-factly.

Jeffery Deaver

My lord, if a man cannot express his honestly held views in the Central Criminal Court, perhaps you can advise me where else he is free to state that which he believes to be the truth?

Show me one who isn't

Dead men's words are so much more powerful than those of the living

an apple is an apple whoever bites it.

Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

I'm 67 years old. it took me a long time to grow up to know that almost everything we hear is not true.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...

The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.

This can't be true but I remember it.

There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

Pay no attention to the terrors that visit you in the night. The psyche is at its lowest ebb then, unable to defend itself. The desolation that envelops you feels like truth, but isn't. It's just mental fatigue masquerading as insight.

Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.

At the time, infatuated with Nietzsche (and half asleep), Leonard didn't want to get into this argument, the truth of which wasn't that all religions were equally valid but that they were equally nonsensical.

Here's a question I still can't answer: Did I see through the male tricks because I was destined to scheme that way myself? Or do girls see through the tricks, too, and just pretend not to notice?

We realized that the version of the world [our parents] rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a damn about lawns.

Whatever happened now would become the truth, that whatever he seemed to be would become what he was - already an American, in other words.

Real life doesn't live up to writing about it