Quotes About Truth

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

But the reality is that sometimes a good lie may be what we really need. Provided we can make it sound like truth.

O time! The beautifier of the dead, Adorner of the ruin, comforter And only healer when the heart hath bled— Time! The corrector where our judgments err, The test of truth, love, sole philosopher. —Lord Byron, Childe Harold IV, 1818

The Blue Church's stranglehold on truth and reality is breaking, and new ideas are emerging. But when they do, the Blue Church rallies to squash them using their trusted techniques of shame, ridicule, and exile.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

You want the truth? You can't handle the truth

The psychopath [or sociopath] makes a mockery not only of the truth but also of all authority and institutions. —Arnold Buss, M.D." Psychopathology

the best commercial songs have an appeal to the masses because they contain an innate truth, a connection that cannot be denied, whether it is a groove that has an immediate physical effect or a lyric so perfectly wedded to music that an emotional reaction invariably occurs.

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

If one person tells you you're a horse , they are crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, There's conspiracy afoot. If ten people tell you you're a horse,it's time to buy a saddle

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.

Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the reflection of life, is beautiful.

Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.

While words may be altered or censored, the truth endures, even when not properly recorded. Truth can be forgotten, misplaced, or lost, but never annihilated.

Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it to be.

I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on

A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

what reality is formed into.

It is in that visionary Madness of the Mind that permits a Madman to perceive Truth in extremis, when all else had seemed lost. Mercifull, indeed, is this worldly Existence, and cruel; and beautifull; and vile, and filled with Pain and greater in its Scale, and in its Depth, and its Complexity than mere Men can ever hope to understand; and profound wonderfull in its Capacity.

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

The truth would set her free. Only then would she be able to get on with her life.

I am lying to myself. I am always lying to myself and I really must stop it. I am alone. My friends don't know how to talk to me or write to me any more

Be brave, be clever, and be true to your heart.

They are dreamers, these women, these bears, they are seers and speakers of truth, dancers of time, travelling the world, gathering stories.