Quotes About Truth

Just a child. All this time we've feared you, sought you. And you're nothing more than a human child.

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Those who say don't know, those who know don't say

The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't.

The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.