Quotes About Truth

Kai aš buvau vaikas, mano mama man pasak?, kad aš esu mažas gabal?lis dangaus, kuris at?jo ? pasaul?, nes mama ir t?tis j? labai myl?jo! Tik v?liau aš supratau, jog tai nebuvo tiesa.

could not be blamed just because no one ever mentioned that once you closed the storybook, Cinderella still had to do laundry and clean the toilet and take care of the crown prince.

What people said they would do and what people actually did were two very different things.

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

A trial, it often came down to who had the best story.

matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

It was hard to separate the fact from the fiction...

I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store—ladies with smooth brown hair and show-me smiles, grapefruit-headed babies on their sibling's knees—people who in real life probably were strangers brought together by a talent scout to be a phony family. Maybe it's not so different from real photos, after all.

I want to finish what I started." Life asked death, "Why do people love me but hate you?" Death responded, "Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth." —Unknown

You can't buy a clean conscience.

There are two reasons to not tell the truth -- because lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

People are never who they seem to be

Then again, it didn't take me long in the world of corporate law to realize that truth is an afterthought in court. In fact, truth is an afterthought in most trials. But there were six million people who were lied to, during World War II, and somebody owes them the truth.

The truth is, if I do miraculously manage to put the right words together, it's by default, because I've already used up all the wrong ones.

What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline cracks.

The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

I hate that you didn't trust me enough to tell me the truth.

It's not that he doesn't love you enough to tell you the truth," she said. "It's that he loves you too much to risk it.

Things don't always look as they seem. Make of it what you will.

JUST SO YOU KNOW, 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.

How many exceptions do there have to be before you start to realize that maybe the truths you've been told aren't actually true?

You can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.

Only the liar knows if he's lying