Quotes About Truth

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

The thing about death is that we're all terrified of it happening, and we're devastated when it does, and we go out of our way to pretend that neither of these things is true.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

a witness is defined through what he sees, not what he says. And just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

You're lying," he said-not angry, not accusing. Just as if he was stating the facts, in a way that she wasn't. "I am not-" "You can say it a million times, but that doesn't make it any more true." Peter smiled then, so guileless that Lacy felt it smart like a stripe from a whip. "You might be able to fool Dad, and the cops, and anyone else who'll listen," he said. "You just can't fool another liar.

We don't know what reality is," Rayanne says. "We just pretend we do, because it makes us feel like we're in control.

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

Is it better not knowing the ugly truth, and pretending it doesn't exist? Or is it better to confront it, even though the knowledge may be a weight you carry around forever?

Only the liar knows that he's lying.

I also mistakenly believed that the scariest stories came from imagination, not real life.

It is amazing how you can look in a mirror your whole life and think you are seeing yourself clearly. And then one day, you peel off a filmy gray layer of hypocrisy, and you realize you've never truly seen yourself at all. I

But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

I know what loose ends can do to a soul. The sooner she knows the truth, whatever it is, the sooner she can get on with her future.

Just so you know, I begin, when they say 'Once upon a time'... they're lying. It's not once upon a time. It's not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

You told me this lawsuit isn't about race. But that's what started it. And it doesn't matter if you can convince the jury I'm the reincarnation of Florence Nightingale—you can't take away the fact that I am Black. The truth is, if I looked like you, this would not be happening to me.

You have a choice. You can just go on the facts and form your own opinions. Or you can hold the truth in your hands, and see it for the gift it is.

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

Is it really lying if all you're doing is keeping your mouth shut, about something that's nobody's business anyway?

It's amazing what you can convince yourself of, if you buy into the lie.

When the truth came out, and no one wanted to be around her anymore, it stood to reason Josie wouldn't want to be around herself either.

The best lies are the ones that are wrapped around a core of truth.