Quotes About Truth

Its continued illegality was proof that lying and/or stupidity was a cornerstone of government policy.

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth ... is that nobody gets over anything.

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Real history is the commonplace, unrecorded.

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but [only] the certainty of meeting what remains, undisclosed.

One cannot divide one's life between an actual relationship to God and an inactual I-It relationship to the world - praying to God in truth and utilizing the world. Whoever knows the world as something to be utilized knows God the same way. His prayers are a way of unburdening himself - and fall into the ears of the void.

there is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat.

On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence, because they gratify some wish.

Those who tell of two ways and praise one are recognized as prophets or great teachers. They save men from confusion and hard choices. They offer a single choice that is easy to make because those who do not take the path that is commended to them live a wretched life. To walk far on this path may be difficult, but the choice is easy, and to hear the celebration of this path is pleasant. Wisdom offers simple schemes, but truth is not so simple.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire. Not

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

Your such a cynic. Exactly, that's what you call a guy who tells you the truth.

The man who has the courage to say he is wrong has to face the worst hatred; the hatred of those who think he is right.

One thing you learn in my job is that the truth is usually the last thing people want to emerge. Guilty or innocent, it doesn't matter. Everyone has something to hide.

You only saw the side of people that they wanted you to show, learnt the details of their lives they were willing to reveal. Everyone kept secrets. - Pg. 222

Don't you worry Stella, we'll get to the bottom of this, you know we will.  We are the best there is in investigative journalism'. 'Yes you're right, we are'.  Stella

1). When there is enough for all, all should have enough 2). Truths pose as facts with meaning 3). How you act is who you are 4). We are all atheists, we are all believers 5). The meaning of life is found in the attempt to turn our truths into facts 6). Culture is the immortalization of individuality

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.

Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.