Quotes About Truth

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.

"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

He buries gold who hides the truth.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

People would rather believe than know.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.