Quotes About Truth

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

That's not the way it happened, asshole," I said, gently correcting him.

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

With his white collar he forges god's name on every word he speaks

What's beauty if it's not, in the end, true? Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty.

I love you," he says, and the fact that he doesn't makes it true.

Actuality is a running impoverishment of possibility.

A jelen a paradicsom, ám az agyunk nem engedi, hogy sokáig éljünk benne.

They found themselves involved willy-nilly in a futile but urgent search for the truth.

A writer of fiction, a professional liar, is paradoxically obsessed with what is true.

Freud is like God; you make it true.

An omniscient being could not be ignorant of anything, so an omniscient being would not know something. He could not know ignorance.

it is unmistakable; it does not need other proofs to back it up; it is self-evident and attests to its own truth.

It is true that some of the miracles of the Bible are reported to have occurred in the presence of a good number of witnesses. But it must be emphasized that the testimony of one person, or even of four, that some event was witnessed by a multitude is not the same as having the testimony of the multitude itself.

Wipe your mouth, there's still a tiny bit of bullshit around your lips.

Just because something 'happens', because it is 'true', because the 'facts' are correct, does not ensure that it is the truth.

You should never read just for 'enjoyment.' Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick 'hard books.' Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for God's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool!

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

Oh, that second bottle, Harry, is the sincerest, wisest, & most impartial downright friend we have, tells us truth of ourselves & forces us to speak truths of others, banishes flattery from our tongues and distrust from our hearts, sets us above the mean policy of court prudence which makes us lie to one another all day for fear of being betrayed by each other at night.

Then talk not of inconstancy, False hearts, and broken vows; If I, by miracle, can be This live-long minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heav'n allows.

Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.

What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience—even if you risk angering or hurting that person—you are offering the most valuable gift of all.