Quotes About Truth

History is painted by the winners.

But truth doesn't count / in law, only proof.

Anyone can paint a mask. It's boring. And everyone secretly wants to collaborate with the enemy, to construct a truer version of the self. How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder? Difficult, to be confronted with the fact of yourself.

We have been very brave, we have wanted to know the worst, wanted the curtain to be lifted from our eyes.

there's no pure way to say it.

Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other. We know who our enemies are. We know.

I don't have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don't think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.

Richard Turner

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

Most people lie about small things but would be afraid to lie about big things. But manipulators know that if you insist on a lie long enough, many people will believe you — especially if you have the resources of mass media to air your lie. All skilled manipulators are focused on what you can get people to believe, not on what is true or false. They know that the human mind does not naturally seek the truth; it seeks comfort, security, personal confirmation and vested interest. In

Fallacies are "foul ways" to win arguments, yet they are winning arguments and manipulating people everyday. The mass media are filled with them. They are the bread and butter of mass political discourse, public relations, and advertising. We all at times fall prey to them. And many live and breathe them as if they were the vehicles of sacred truth. Your

I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are.

That's what's important really, Keeper says. Learning how to be what the Creator created you to be. Face your truth.

ya prove who ya are in the day yer in.

Amid the slaps and pokes and guffaws that greeted them, I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are. I became drunk with that.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

Dennis Prager, the conservative Jewish thinker, noted that the lie is easily debunked. Because the core tenet of the Nazis is a desire to kill Jews, no serious person could believe that Donald Trump, the father and father-in-law of a Jewish couple (the Kushners) and the grandfather of Jewish grandchildren, would consider Nazis to be 'fine people'.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

He who is unaware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

He that is not aware of his ignorance, will be only misled by his knowledge.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.