Quotes About Truth

A salad of honesty and deception is the only way I can get away with an untruth.

What year is it?" "It's 2019." "Who is president?" "No." "I'll accept that answer. What's your name?" "Luna Grey.

I circled the next puddle and said, "I'm going to let you in on a secret: People don't grow up like you think they do." Rae sighed and said, "What are you talking about?" "The whole grown-up thing is a myth. Whatever is wrong with you now will probably be wrong with you in twenty years.

Emily Dickinson calls it 'truth told slant,

The ceremonial key to the city of Padua] is engraved with a quote from Galileo that is also on display at the physics department of the university...'I deem it of more value to find out a truth about however light a matter than to engage in long disputes about the greatest questions without achieving any truth.

Science certainly is not the static statement of universal laws we all hear about in elementary school. Nor is it a set of arbitrary rules. Science is an evolving body of knowledge. Many of the ideas we are currently investigating will prove to be wrong or incomplete. Scientific descriptions certainly change as we cross the boundaries that circumscribe what we know and venture into more remote territory where we can glimpse hints of the deeper truths beyond.

They don't get to tell you who I am." His voice is a rough growl, low and tight. "I do. I tell you and I show you, so you get the truth—not their fabrication of it." A muscle in his jaw flexes. "Understand?

What we deny owns us. You can't control what you don't first own and face. You simply delay the moment it owns you.

I never lie to any man because I don't fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid. —John Gotti CHAPTER

Ella - "I want the truth!" Jayden - "Give me the gun Ella." Ella - "Make me trust you and I will.

We are raw and honest, or we are nothing.

There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours, and the truth. —Joe Massino CHAPTER

want the lies to end. I pull my gun from my purse and point it at him. "Who are you to me, Kayden? Who am I?" from Denial

It means he can trust you, and trust is not an easy thing to give or receive.

many of the wrong things in common to be more than sex, and the realization is freedom to me.

Delusion needs an architecture;

We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is, on the brink of catastrophe, torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do," he

Tabby didn't mince words when she gave a pointed warning to his fans in the pages of Castle Rock two months after Misery was published: "In some very real way, you, the readers, know this man very well. I would like to suggest that you do not know him at all. In seventeen years of marriage, I am still discovering things I did not know about Steve, and I hope he's still discovering the unknown in me.

You should never use propaganda to teach kids the truth.

Nowadays people formulate truth; they don't find it.

The everyday Joes, like you and me, a lot of them know nothing firsthand and think they know everything. And they talk-talk-talk-talk and post their opinions all over the Internet and it's loud and ridiculous. It's like we're all in this ship of fools and nobody knows if the boat is even real." Jack looks at me.

This is all true. So much so that the simplicity of the words feels about as right as a sunrise over mountains or the gasp of knowing that occurs when you realize for the first time that you understood something you'd been trying to grasp for years, and the difficulty wasn't in its complexity but its simplicity. There was something you'd been missing, something you didn't even know to look for.

Sometimes I hated it when I was right, but I always hated it when someone else was. Especially when their being right made me wrong. I'm irrational that way. It's something I'm working on.

My family's big on denial. And if we denied something long enough, we thought it'd go away. I know that's not how it works, but we're in denial about that, too.