Quotes About Truth

Vote for Nobody. Nobody will keep election promises . Nobody will listen to your concerns. Nobody will help the poor & unemployed. Nobody cares! Nobody Tells the Truth.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

God is a first-rate bureaucrat, one of the best. In all matters, He sees the truth, but is yet to take a decision.

The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.

True and genuine inward certainty does not in the least fear outward analysis, nor does truth resent honest criticism. You should never forget that intolerance is the mask covering

Urantia Foundation

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

She fought him by reminding herself what her father had said to Emil Hesping—that they lived in a country where believing had taken the place of knowing.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Not a quote. Did Ursula study at Hunter College?

I was the victim of both social orders: of Apollo's waxing patriarchy, & of Clytemnestra's last spasms of outraged matriarchy. My father Priam probably would have said: that I had asked for it. That no society could be expected to tolerate an individual who insisted on telling the truth.

I'll never cease to admire the skill if not the pragmatism of historians & mythographers who manage to blend a number of small truths & probabilities into one large lie. Which hungry hero worshippers swallow whole, without the reservation of a doubt.

All forms of art demand a discipline that is not unlike praying. That lays a pipeline between the art & the truth.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Truth must be integrated with love; morality is not whole without it. Love is the greatest strength of the powerless. Unity founded on love will never be coercion; power guided by love will never be violence. Love is all-powerful and will even overcome hatred. And only love can do this!

If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living the truth. This is why it must be suppressed more severely than anything else.

The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light in a realm of darkness. . . . They can equally be lethal arrows. Worst of all, at times they can be one or the other. They can even be both at once!

By the way, the representatives of power invariably come to terms with those who live within the truth by persistently ascribing utilitarian motivations to them – a lust for power or fame or wealth – and thus they try, at least, to implicate them in their own world, the world of general demoralization.)

Truth lies not only in what is said, but also in who says it, to whom, why, how and under what circumstances.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...