Quotes About Truth

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.

It seemed that the media pretty much controlled how the average person perceived the situation. We had little respect for journalists. Throughout my career, reporters always seemed to invent what they did not know and misinterpret what they saw.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

The right to challenge a man's judgment carries with it no automatic right to question his honor.

The truth is, the Hero of heaven who went to the cross for you and me loves us too deeply to leave us unwarned.

If we are not careful, this false culture can dull our senses and lull us into a kind of trance, and we begin to exist in a nether world of attractive lies and half-truths.

Our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us

By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.

To know is to possess, & any fact is possessed by everyone who knows it, whereas those who feel the truth are possessed, not possessors.

Sometimes we fail to enjoy living in an Immanuel reality due to a distorted per 9 ception of God's character.

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

The historian will tell you what happened. The Novelist will tell you what it felt like. And the historical fiction writer does both!

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

Seeker Of Truth seeker of truth follow no path all paths lead where truth is here

For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-mysteries creates them all: nothing false and possible is love (who's imagined,therefore limitless) love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if,love is to yes

what time is it?its is by every star a different time,and each most falsely true ...

Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands.

for whenever men are right they are not young

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man.

nothing" the unjust man complained "is just" ("or un-" the just rejoined.

Because only the truest things always are true because they can't be true