Quotes About Truth

You ever considered the possibility that you might be an alcoholic?" "Nope. Alcoholics go to meetings," he replies. "I don't go to meetings.

He once told me that being politically correct was like pretending you could pick up a dog turd by the clean end.

The three biggest lies in the world are these: it gets better; everything will be OK;

I'm not the police. There are no cameras, or recorders, no notebook, no witnesses. I'm not a priest. I can't take your confession. I don't care if your guilty. I don't care if you feel guilty. I only want the truth.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. GEORGE ORWELL

Tell me what you can't forget, and I'll tell you who you are." —Julie Buntin, Marlena

is so fundamental to our existence; it is wired into our DNA. That's why babies learn to fake cry before they're a year old and to bluff by the age of two. By four a child is an accomplished liar, and by five, he or she realises that truly outrageous lies are less likely to be believed.

People think they want the truth, but the opposite is true. Honesty is mean and rough and ugly, while lying can be kinder, softer and more humane. It's not honesty that we want, but consideration and respect.

It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.

I think that sometimes you can forget what the truth is if you hear a lie often enough.

The truth is a story. The truth is a habit. The truth is a compromise. The truth is a casualty. The truth died long ago.

How does anyone know what's true or real? Things we once accepted as facts are now accepted as being wrong. The earth is not flat, smoking isn't good for us, Pluto isn't a planet, witches weren't burnt at the stake in Salem, and humans have more than five senses. Everything has a half-life—even facts.

He once told me he didn't like to meet people he admired because they invariably disappointed in person.

The real mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be experienced. —J. J. Van der Leeuw

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. —Zeno of Elea (490–430 B.C., Greek philosopher)

With our habit of sensible literalism we have a difficult time believing that the ancient mythopoeic imagination could have been a valid tool for serious knowledge.

if your thoughts are clear and in harmony with your mind and the truth of your surroundings, your life can be filled with all the richness the Universe has to offer.

The promise given was necessity of the past: the word borken is a necessity of the present" -Niccolo Machiavelli

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

Here words can kill - literally.

En mi juventud me enseñaron que en el corazón de cada historia se esconde una semilla de realidad" -Bastet

Even if he could not see them, several lifetimes of listening to emperors, kings, princes, politicians and thieves had taught him that it was often not what people said, but what they did not say that revealed the truth.