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Quotes About Truth

I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I want to know the truth, undistorted by time and revision and wishes and regrets.
~ Dana Spiotta
A lie of invention, a lie about yourself, should not be called a lie. It needs a different word.
~ Dana Spiotta
You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool a horse.
~ Unknown
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
~ Unknown
youtube has been told to get rid of anything that disputes the official narrative of total lies
~ Unknown
WE MUST USE OUR SENSE OF REASON AND NOT SHUT THAT OFF BECAUSE IT CONFLICTS WITH THE OFFICIAL PROPAGANDA.
~ Unknown
Gray, desperate, raked a hand through his hair. "Very well then, belay that. You want the truth, I'll ram it down your pretty throat! Yes, I jumped ship, and if the navy finds me here, my life is ruined.
~ Unknown
Yes, and Satan was able to charm Eve before he brought about man's downfall, too." "Satan was once an angel of God." "I am no angel.
~ Unknown
You were right, you know." "About what?" "About me. About the things I've kept locked within myself, about my dread of getting close to anyone, about everything. I thought you were talking a load of rubbish, but somewhere, somehow, I ended up looking deep inside myself and found that you spoke the truth. You saw something I didn't. Something I didn't want to see. And you've made me realize that allowing one's self to love and be loved isn't so frightening, after all.
~ Unknown
Your job as a writer is to say as truthfully as you can what you see and how you feel. Writing is a high-wire act. It's best not to look at the other circus performers but to attend to the wire.
~ Unknown
I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a sip of water. Her hand, I noticed was steady.. "And if we don't tell them, then we are somehow diminished.
~ Dani Shapiro
There is in each of us a fundamental split between what we think we know and what we know but may never be able to think.
~ Dani Shapiro
They spoke of the crowds that had filled the plaza: the people, always myopic, always easy to fool.
~ Daniel Alarcon
SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO: I always start from real emotions and experiences because I think that gives the narrative a lot of force. But the act of writing consists precisely in distorting those facts through fiction, injecting them with lies, until fantasy overtakes reality. The truth is never enough. That's why I write novels.
~ Daniel Alarcon
Leadership is not about doing what's popular, it is about doing what's right
~ Unknown
Like most clichés, it is fundamentally true that the anxious, the melancholy, the manic, and the obsessed are more likely to become therapists than other people.
~ Daniel B. Smith
But a child is a sensitive instrument. You can hide the factual truth from a child, but you can't blanket influence. Your agitation will out, and over time it will mod your child's temperament as surely as water wear at rock.
~ Daniel B. Smith
In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.
~ Unknown
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
~ Daniel Boorstin
The real courage is seeing the truth and speaking the truth to each other.
~ Daniel Coyle
A lot of coaches can yell or be nice, but what Pop does is different," says assistant coach Chip Engelland. "He delivers two things over and over: He'll tell you the truth, with no bullshit, and then he'll love you to death.
~ Daniel Coyle
Embrace the Messenger:
~ Daniel Coyle
The goal of an AAR is not to excavate truth for truth's sake, or to assign credit and blame, but rather to build a shared mental model that can be applied to future missions.
~ Daniel Coyle
He delivers two things over and over: He'll tell you the truth, with no bullshit, and then he'll love you to death.
~ Daniel Coyle