Quotes About Truth

Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici.

In the presence of love, all that is false falls away.

What youve got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just dont wuss out.

Once that resigned acceptance of a discovery comes, we forget that there was once such a kerfuffle. We act as if this truth were always with us, that it is self-evident. We forget the decades of persecution someone endured in order to shepherd us to the view we would now die to defend. And so we become comfortable – so comfortable that we will wantonly persecute the man or woman who comes to disturb our peaceful state.

Truth be told, most people would not be comfortable if they had to live permanently where their opinions and worldview naturally led.

Here is something for you to write down and remember: facing reality is never pessimistic. Believing the truth, no matter how difficult that may be, is the ultimate act of optimism because it opens up the panorama of options that will free us from further deception. Taking off a blindfold is never an act of pessimism. Getting angry at the truth (or at the messenger who delivers the truth) is a self-deceptive act of narcissistic theater, and it is a colossal waste of time.

If you join us, you have to be willing to give the world the truth - not because you love the world, but because you love the truth.

The zombie, of course, is a metaphor.  He stands for the results—whatever they are—of man's hostility to honesty, simplicity, truth, and love. The

I told him that the lawyers were always saying 'You can't say that you'll get sued.' He said to me, 'Write fiction Michael, you can tell the truth.' (Kirk Douglas to Michael Caine)

She hadn't really known Box; it turned out perhaps she hadn't really known Vivian, either. Maybe nobody really knew anybody.

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.

Just because the rose died on the vine, doesn't mean it lied to you when it was in bloom.

My father was right. There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

The world was full of people who could not get over things. There was no closure and there was no peace. The truth did not set you free. But you could get through things. That's what Bosch would tell him. You could head toward the light and climb and dig and fight your way out of the hole.

several of the clerks would look up from their work from time to time, and direct apprehensive glances over towards the seated figure, as if, sitting there tapping his foot impatiently as he waited for Jukes to return, he was about to weigh the feather of truth in the scales of justice against their sinful hearts.

liar needs a good memory.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

From what I have seen of the world, Reverend, motherhood is a certainty, but fatherhood is a subject of debate.

He couldn't decided whether it bothered him most to think the sailors' tale might be true or to think it was spacious in every detail and passed around as God's word regardless. The death of a horse if the life of a crow and a story was a rank scavenger from all he could tell, feeding on rumour and innuendo and naked confabulation where the truth was too nimble to chase down or too tough to chew.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

I'm anxious to get back to D.C. to correct all the inaccuracies and lies that are being said.