Quotes About Truth

To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

Blessed are they who translate every good thing they know into action - even higher truths shall be revealed to them.

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

I'm not very good at lying.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

The good and bad are indistinguishable in the dark.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.