Quotes About Truth

Rumor is not always wrong.

Rumor is not always wrong. - from Life of Agricola

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

Permítame que le haga una pregunta. ¿Qué convierte en buena una historia? –La credibilidad.

History is like a mirror, capable of showing what a man really is

Sooner or later, her daughter would find out for herself what it meant to live in a world that pulled the plug on the Van Peebleses.

Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future.

I now know that if you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard pile. They operated on two levels with a slave class who worked, ate, slept, and died and a leisured class who reclined on one elbow and spoke. Naturally it is from this latter group that we learn what life at that time was like. It often makes charming reading but we can hardly take it to be the whole truth.

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist, and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

There is no great Dark Man !!!

Cliff didn't know enough to write critical pieces for Films in Review, but he knew enough to know Hiroshima Mon Amour was a piece of crap. He knew enough to know Antonioni was a fraud.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying "Ain't that the truth

A messager deliverer deserves mor for work then fakes.

A liar should have a good memory.

The heart of so great a mystery cannot ever be reached by following one road only." Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (c. 345 – 402) was a Roman statesman, orator, and man of letters; from Augustine, in controversy with St. Ambrose. Quoted by Arnold Toynbee.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Sincerity is barely an explanation: it is never an excuse.

There are two things you can run and not hide from–God and a dysfunctional family.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious — just dead wrong.

Traditional aboriginal teachings seem to suggest that people will always have different perceptions of what has taken place between them. The issue, then, is not so much the search for "truth" but the search for—and the honouring of—the different perspectives we all maintain.