Quotes About Truth

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

The aphorist sees in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.