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Quotes About Truth

Only lie about the future.
~ Johnny Carson
...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
~ Ai Weiwei
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.
~ Zadie Smith
It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient
~ Barack Obama
Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.
~ Matt Drudge
Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do.
~ Tim Waterstone
Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.
~ Thomas Sowell
Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It isn't very logical to live my life on goundless supposition. I have to assume the truth of the moment is the truth of the future. - Leah
~ Jacquelyn Frank, Adam
The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.
~ John Taylor Gatto
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.
~ Dalai Lama
The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us
~ Kevin DeYoung
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
~ Ramana Maharshi
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
~ Helene Deutsch
Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.
~ Billy Graham
The goal of the Redemption is the redemption of truth.
~ Vilna Gaon
The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
~ Charles Caldwell Ryrie
Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.
~ Julian Assange
To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
~ K'naan
All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.
~ Epicurus
I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.
~ William J. Clinton