Quotes About Truth

There's an end to all truth now that the war's over. We've seen too much. The conjurers and cardsharpers have given away their tricks. It's the end of blackmail.

It is not enough for a Christian to condemn evil, cowardice, lies, and use of force, hatred, and oppression. He must at all times be a witness to and defender of justice, goodness, truth, freedom, and love. He must never tire of claiming these values as a right both for himself and others.

In our neighborhood, the problem wasn't the person who made the mistake; it was the person who acknowledged the truth.

But sometimes our princes are disguised as utter rogues, and we fall into the bedroom before we ever meet in the ballroom.

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

Never fall into the mistake of believing, said the examiner, that things are everywhere the way they are here, wherever here is, wherever everywhere is.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

The world isn't the place we are told to live in. It is another place entirely. We have both more choice, and less, than we are supposed to have.

The effect of untrue statements on casual conversations is one of my great loves, my great ongoing investigations.

I was wrong. In fact, the opposite is true. Everyday life is the province of death. It is where all dying takes place--for the extraordinary lands we imagine simply do not exist. There is only the ordinary. It is what we inhabit, and when death comes to find us it is there that he looks.

The third part of my life was where I was told the meaning of my life. One knows the weight of a thing when it is strong enough to bear its own meaning, to hear its own truth told to it, and yet to remain.

If you want to say, Lucia, there is no inside of the park benches, I won't argue with you. But, then you have to say where the pigeons come from.

Ignorance is not about the amount of knowledge. It is about the mechanism of choosing actions. If one chooses actions based upon that which is known to be true - and tries hard to make that domain grow, the domain of knowledge, then he will be rational. Meanwhile, someone else who has much more knowledge might make decisions without paying any attention to truth. That person is ignorant.

Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.

But the politically-incorrect truth is that racism today is a state of mind, more than a social reality.

The nature of the game as it is played is such that the public should realize that the truth cannot be told by the few who know.

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.