Quotes About Truth

Through the window the sun was shining like a beacon, nearly blinding her just as her parents lies had.

There is truth in what they say about the sexes. Men like cars; women like clothes. I also like cars because they take me to clothes.

I didn't want to say Big Ma was right. Cecile was no kind of mother. Cecile didn't want us. Cecile was crazy. I didn't have to.

The Age of Faith: and by 'faith' understand the denial of all scientific reasoning.

Be careful not to fall in love with the fantasy you imagined instead of what's standing before you.

Disassociate with people that criticize you. Avoid them at all costs and act indifferent in their presence. At some point they may ask you what's wrong, and you need to speak the truth.

Do not humiliate, disrespect or embarrass; always speak with a soft tongue when holding your ground. To be loud, rude and obnoxious will negate the argument and advantage. And truth is always mandatory.

Fake people can be silenced with truth.

Our moral code is constantly evolving; it's impacted by the betrayers, masters of deceit, and the pseudo-truth tellers among us, even those we love.

People who don't keep promises, can't be trusted.

People would lie less if they could only remember how difficult it is to live with the lie. There is one exception – narcissistic people live in a lie and therefore have no conscious of guilt regarding the consequences of their dishonest demeanor.

Silence is often the ultimate and most evident lie.

God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

Stories don't have points. They're lies for keeping the truth in. They're sort of rounded, not pointy at all.

I realised something. Since leaving for Nymanteles, since coming clean with my friends, being honest with them, I'd been nobody but me. No pretence. No lies. I had been me. I had found me.

Trying to learn from customer conversations is like excavating a delicate archaeological site. The truth is down there somewhere, but it's fragile. While each blow with your shovel gets you closer to the truth, you're liable to smash it into a million little pieces if you use too blunt an instrument.

Talk about their life instead of your idea Ask about specifics in the past instead of generics or opinions about the future Talk less and listen more It's called The Mom Test because it leads to questions that even your mom can't lie to you about.

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface.

Good Samaritans: Truth, justice and the American way–for them it wasn't only a comic book code; it was a way of life. it was admirable, courageous, and inconvenient as shit. -Stefan, CHIMERA

All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.