Quotes About Truth

Rumour, gossip, slander - single drops of poison can pollute an entire system.

The American justice system administers punishment. It does not conduct inquests and it does not find facts.

Sometimes there is no sugar-coating it. Sometimes you have to challenge people's belief systems in a progressive way.

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

Being absolutely sure that one is right is part of growing up, and so is realizing, years later, that the truth might be more nuanced.

You could call a haddock a horse, but woe betide you should you try to saddle it and ride to market.

And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love.

Anyway,' Sherm said quietly, 'people fake stuff all the time.

But sometimes our veils are pushed away for a few moments, like there's a wind blowing it from our faces. And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love. But mostly we are happy not to. Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. Then they don't have to depend on the wind anymore.

Sometimes the truth is dramatic.

Miriam says that sometimes, when we don't want to 'look hard at our behavior,' we look hard at everything else instead...

Women like this exploited a person's natural civility, marching through the gaps left by a inability to speak the naked truth.

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other, but it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

If you cannot find the truth where you are, Where do you expect to find it? —Master Dogen

There was no deeper truth in the mundanity of violence. That truth sat on the surface and required no mining at all.

Patience Is The Best Way 2 Expose A Liar,Because Sooner Than Later They Will Forget The Lies They Told!

You can't find truth so easily in disorder. Grammar—and biology—and chemistry—and math—they keep things in order. We wouldn't know much without order. Good grammar does matter.