Quotes About Truth

A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.

I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.

Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

It's my hope that as you dip your toe into the Bible's story and viewpoint, you'll find yourself feeling that the Good Book knows more about the world - and about you - than any normal book does.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

Good writing is about telling the truth.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

A good film is also a documentary

Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

The good news doesn't make any sense unless you know what the bad news is first, and the bad news goes pretty deep.

Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

Better to have bad news that's true than good news we made up

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

It is not good news, but we have to face reality.