Quotes About Truth

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

People change what they do less because they are given analysis that shifts their thinking than because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings. —John P. Kotter, The Heart of Change

according to Sri Ramana, something can be called real only if it satisfies three essential criteria: it must be eternal, unchanging and self-shining.

you sound like a hen with diarrhea. There's only one truth, and it's annihilation.

Values are good things only if they are good values.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

In the years since, rule number one in crisis management, whether in the White House or during run-of-the-mill Washington scandals, has been "Tell the truth and tell it early.

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.

Der Kritisch-Aufgeklärte wird zunächst felsenfest behaupten, es gäbe keine Zensur in einer Demokratie, und wenn man ihm dann Beispiele nennt, wird er ungerührt erklären, dass es gut sei, wenn gewisse Tatsachen und Ansichten nicht veröffentlicht würden.

What if I told you that we know exactly who shot JFK from the grassy knoll, that the foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor was proven in court, that the CO2 greenhouse effect is scientifically absurd, that our money is created through loans by banks who don't even have the funds, or that science proves with a 100% certainty that 911 was an inside job?

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

There are different layers of honesty—the truth of what you said and the truth of what was in your heart when you spoke the words.

People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.

acknowledged, was that the world might not care if he was telling the truth. The public was less interested in real justice than in the clean, self-righteous satisfaction of immediate blame. They didn't want the truth. The truth was complicated, messy, required something of them, maybe even an admission of their own fallibility. All the questioning and the listening and the thinking, so exhausting, who had the time? They just needed someone to hang.

Augustine once warned, "If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."80

Compromise has a way of blinding our eyes, and we get used to the situation in which we find ourselves, comparing our own lives with the lives of others—until we rediscover the Word of God.

Augustine once commented, "If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

It is, of course, essential to remember that theology is not merely a matter of intellect, but also of experience. Theology is concerned with spiritual realities, and must include personal experience as well as ideas ... The feeling equally with reason must share in the consideration of theology, because theology is of the heart, and the deepest truths are inextricably bound up with personal needs and experiences.17

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. —1 JOHN 2:3–5

This in itself is a fact to be celebrated.

Consequently, no idea – no complete series of answers to why-questions – can ever be an object of human knowledge. Yet, Kant argues, without ideas morality would be impossible:

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.