Quotes About Truth

Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.

In other words, it is precisely because we have lost our grasp of the nature of knowledge that we have nothing to educate with for the salvation of our order.

Truly it is said, that knowledge is chief of all things, my son. It allows us to see clearly what we may achieve. Conjecture is no substitute for fact.

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't fool market forces (at least not for long)

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)

Well, I'm not a crook.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

It would be revealed years later that the language had been lifted almost verbatim from an ad that had appeared in the New York Times and other papers over the names of isolationist congressmen, written and paid for by Nazi agents.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever hear or see anything as it truly is, or if a lifetime is only long enough to begin learning how to watch and listen.

Yup, I think it's in the Virgins.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tell lies. You write lies that tell truths.

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

Our culture's quest to hide death behind a facade of denial has made fools and pretended immortals of us all. Perhaps it would be more helpful and liberating to begin each day by repeating the words of Crazy Horse, "Today is a good day to die.

We can deny reality, but we can't deny the consequences of denying reality.

Deep in our hearts everyone walks free.