Quotes About Truth

There are no facts anymore, kiddo. only good or bad fiction.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

We ask a simple question And that is all we wish: Are fishermen all liars? Or do only liars fish?

can seem very attractive to someone who has no idea at all what it really means; and

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

Things you know before you hear them -- Those are you, Those are why You are in the world.

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

If it is true that there is no fear (terror) in love, it is also true that there is no love without (reverent) fear.

It points, for instance, to the fact that there is never an abstract, single 'Christian answer' to an issue to which all Christians are bound to adhere or conform.

Vox populi, vox Humbug.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose--all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him.

I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it's a piece of misinformation.

I think it is the art of the glimpse. If the novel is like an intricate Renaissance painting, the short story is an impressionist painting. It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more. It is concerned with the total exclusion of meaninglessness. Life, on the other hand, is meaningless most of the time. The novel imitates life, where the short story is bony, and cannot wander. It is essential art.

It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.

There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.

But, sad to say, Jefferson is not the only American statesman who has spoken high-sounding words in favour of freedom, and then left his own children to die slaves.