Quotes About Truth

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

The selfish thing to do was to play to everyone's needs to feel accepted. The unselfish thing to do was to be the person God created me to be, to serve him and people, to speak the truth, even when the truth wasn't going to make me popular.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....

This is not a pipe.

What lies inside a cage of flames? The truth, the heart, but burned up before you can see it. Only traces remain in the ashes, a pattern you guess at or invent, an intangible thing that might leave a mark, but could just as easily blow away.

The truth is, we cannot just think ourselves into a new way of being; we must live ourselves into a new way of being.

Y'all carried secrets because that's what I taught you, but secrets . . . just . . . fester

Mr. Happiness is an illusion created by pharmaceutical companies.

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

Nothing is obvious in itself. Obviousness is subjective.

Wolfe grunted. "That's admirably specious, but drop it. I give you my word that I haven't the faintest notion of who killed Ellen Tenzer." Cramer eyed him. "Your word?" "Yes, sir.

Well." Wolfe was judicious. "You were not under oath. The police have been lied to informally many times by many people, including me. The right to lie in the service of your own interests is highly valued and frequently exercised.

Probably no man will ever corral truth, but Protagoras came closer to it than Plato.

Nothing is quite so uncomfortable as a loose conscience.

Some day, Archie, I shall be constrained Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but no. I cannot remake the universe, and must therefore put up with this one. What is, is, including you." He

I have just been explaining to Mr. Anderson that the ingenious theory of the Barstow case which he is trying to embrace is an offense to truth and an outrage on justice, and since I cherish the one and am on speaking terms with the other, it is my duty to demonstrate to him its inadequacy.

Wolfe has taught me that one of the most important requirements for successful lying is relaxed vocal cords and throat muscles; otherwise you are forced to put on extra pressure to push the lie through, and the result is that you talk faster and raise the pitch and the blood shows in your face.

Don't overdo it. There are numerous layers of honesty, and the deepest should not have a monopoly.

I don't try to abolish reality by shutting my eyes, nor do I gobble garbage.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Such is the ability of man to believe in what at any time he finds it convenient to believe, they may actually have convinced themselves that they were speaking the truth.

Because an argument is used hypocritically, it does not necessarily follow that it is untrue.