Quotes About Truth

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Mrs. Gruber said that happiness was not something she aspired to, that when we had seen as much of the world as she had, we would know that what lies right behind the horseshit is not a prize pony, my dears, it's more horseshit.

try hard not to say things like this, but every once in a while my need to prove a point, such a base and unattractive need, rises up and I meet it by telling him things that he doesn't need to hear.

This is not true, that nothing bad will happen, and therefore not comforting to me. It leaves me quite alone with reality, but the way he feels is exactly what I want for him.

Conflict, in the Bridgewater culture, is conducted in the service of finding "what is true and what to do about it.

The truth is that white Americans often hold their biggest disdain for other white Americans—the ones on the opposite side of the cultural divide.

The peril we face today is not only that America might fail to live up to its promise, but that Americans might stop believing in that promise or the need to fight for it. The increasing belief on the left that this promise was always a lie, or on the right that it has always been true and has already been achieved, are two sides of the same coin.

I wish I had known that secrets get stronger over time.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

The media—stenographers to power.

More and more people are saying 'no' to government lies, corporate greed, and a slavish media. The silenced majority is finding its voice.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

I suppose there are two worlds-the small, protected one we carve out for ourselves, where we fret about a whole lot of nothing, and the other world, the real one, which comes knocking at the door, demanding to be let in and given a seat.

Self-esteem doesn't come from a child hearing something that's not true about him or her. If an adult does not believe that the child has done a good job with something, well, it's not the least bit helpful to say so.

You know how when you find somebody who you know is in touch with the truth, how you want to be in the presence of that person?" People felt that way about him.

He once asked me, "You know how when you find somebody who you know is in touch with the truth, how you want to be in the presence of that person?

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, in its original French. It read: "L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." What is essential is invisible to the eye.

They will do their best to invalidate your story. If that doesn't work, they will tell you not to tell your story.

Frankly, I think that after we die, we have this wide understanding of what's real. And we'll probably say, 'Ah, so that's what it was all about.' Fred Rogers

A lot of [Republicans] know what [Trump] did was wrong. And they didn't have the courage to say it.

Anyone who says things like "Happy Ever After" as though that end to a love story is a given, is cooking up a right stinking cauldron of shite and trying to serve it as soup.

Trav knew the real boy underneath, and he was three times as beautiful as the image.