Quotes About Truth

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

I'm standing for real freedom.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

We are citizens who love to fake life than dig deep into our reality to discover the truth and make amends and correct our own wrongdoings, because we are reluctant to learn from our past.

Newspapers should have no friends.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.

Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

Friendship is more important than truth.

What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...

Friendship requires truth, and there is no truth in her.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.