Quotes About Truth

jurors can't help themselves. They're swayed by their life experiences as much as the evidence and the law. Still, with all my bellyaching, here's the strange thing. Juries usually get it right!

A doctor asks a patient how much he drinks and how often he has sex. To get the truth, multiply the former by two and divide the latter by three. The waiter brought our broiled snapper

Find out what the cops know before you tell them your version. And always call your lawyer!

the news is often accurate without being truthful.

Magna est veritas. Great is truth.

Sometimes the truth will not set you free. Sometimes it will send you away for life.

A lawyer needs to know the truth. No, strike that. I can't speak for my brethren. I need to know the truth.

Wetiko doesn't objectively exist, and yet, at the same time, it is not merely our projection or imagination. Instead of an either/or universe, where phenomena like wetiko are either real or unreal, there is an area in between in which it is both/and--both real and unreal at the same time.

John's Gospel reveals that as the Word made flesh, Jesus comes alongside us and touches us with the gracious truth of his holy love (Jn 1:14; 3:16).

Nothing recedes into the vanishing point of time's rear-view faster than the truth.

Pick up the world and turn it over, as Mama liked to say, and you won't find fair written anywhere on it.

I've never quite understood the double Janus face of bi – Janus, the Roman god of gates and doors, especially closets.

Don't let anyone tell you that the truth can't disappear. If I believe in anything, rather than God, is that I am part of something that goes all the way back to Antigone, and that whatever speaks the truth of our hearts can only make us stronger. Can only give us the power to counter the hate and bigotry and heal this addled world. Just remember: You are not alone.

History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn't make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn't fit. And often that is quite a lot.

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

Everything that is not as it appears, I think it is from your country.

That's why it's difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

el olvido no es lo mismo que la reconciliación y la memoria no es lo mismo que la venganza».

Believing a patient's lies is not a professional failure. Psychiatrists are trained to detect, understand, and treat psychopathology, not to function as lie detectors. While a certain level of suspicion is essential in the practice of psychiatry, clinicians, determined never to be taken in by deceitful patients, will approach them with such exaggerated suspicion that therapeutic work will be impossible.

beginning to take the true

When the mouth opens All are wrong.

History may always become a kind of evasion of the search for truth. It is always possible to hide behind history so as to affirm nothing on one's own account...Ultimately, the skeptical historian no longer searches for anything, and the dogmatic philosopher has nothing but enemies or students but never friends.

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

The privilege of the living is to misquote the dead.