Quotes About Truth

I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

People will respect you more if you are honest with them.

I don't have to alter the way I look - I can still wear a short, tight dress, but if what I'm saying is correct, then hopefully you garner respect.

You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.

If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

What we do with the information now is up to us, but certainly I have a lot of respect for the courage and integrity that was required for [Edard Snowden] to take that action.

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.

In order to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself.

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

Sometimes love really is just that simple.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

Said I loved you but I lied, cause this is more than love I feel inside.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.