Quotes About Truth

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

Lincoln almost got it right.  Sure you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Who cares!  All you really have to do is fool most of the people right before the election.

Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.

Prior to the studies by Renan and Straus, historians thought myth was an obstacle to be removed in the search for the actual truth of history. But these new writers treated myth as a source of insight into the ways people viewed themselves and their universe. What if instead of treating myth as an illusion and a falsification, we saw it as an expression of people's deepest dreams?

Common consensus is not thought but wishful thinking.

Jesus would rather have us do what is right than what is "Christian." Earlier

the unexpected truth that the safest place for a sinful person to go is to God.

The best use of technology is to enhance the power of worship that is an expression of spirit and truth.

We do not see the world as it is; we see the world as we are.

Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing His name.

Si se vive de acuerdo con la conciencia, la fe no es tan importante.»

Dios nos conduce por el eterno camino de la sabiduría, y la verdad sólo se aprende a costa de sufrirla.

Where there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek.

Humans have a tendency to look for things in the places where it is easiest to search for them rather than in the places where the truth is more likely to be found.

The body often contains emotional truths that words can too easily gloss over.

To the American way of thinking, respect is bound up with honesty, and honesty is essential to personal responsibility. Hiding, dissimulation, and other forms of deception amount to disrespect. You lie only to those beneath you—children, constituents, employees

Ours is a culture that reveres the ethos of absolute frankness and elevates truth-telling to moral perfection. Other cultures believe that when everything is out in the open and ambiguity is done away with, it may not increase intimacy, but compromise it.

She says, "I am so sick of the excuses

Trust and truth are intimate companions, but we must also acknowledge that there are many kinds of truth. What are the useful truths, for us as individuals and as couples, in light of the choices we are likely to make? Some kinds of knowledge bring clarity; others just give us visions to torture ourselves with.

To doggedly look for marital causes in cases like these is an example of what's known as the "streetlight effect," where the drunken man is searching for his missing keys not where he dropped them but where the light is. Human beings have a tendency to look for things in the places where it is easiest to search for them rather than in the places where the truth is more likely to be found.

The quest for the unexplored self is a powerful theme of the adulterous narrative.

A Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent. —William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence

Optimism is an attempt to circumvent the truth.