Quotes About Truth

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

But in the end, we can't live our lives by 'what if' and 'if only.' We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.

Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

The best thing to know is what you don't know.

Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.

I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.

Wikipedia celebrates its 12th birthday today. Of course, I have no idea if it's true. I read it on Wikipedia.

Advertising is legalized lying.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

I believe Satan exists for two reasons: first, the Bible says so, and second, I've done business with him.

If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.

If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.