Quotes About Truth

I committed murder. That doesn't weigh heavily on me. I believe I made the morally correct choice.

Science is based on the premise that logic and reason can tell us the true nature of reality. Religion is based on the idea that when logic and reason don't support a predetermined view of reality, they are at fault.

If I were to break a law, it would only be of the kind that are designed to inconvenience. Law, like God, is only real when people believe in it. When you know the truth—that it's really just the good and bad we do to each other that really matters—you see things differently.

It's a childish worldview to choose what to believe and what not to in the face of the evidence. Playing peekaboo with the facts doesn't make them disappear.

There is no sure thing when it comes to investing. Anyone that tells you that your investment is guaranteed to increase is lying through their teeth.

what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for their own truth.

should be published

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented

Reality's got a lot to answer for

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

There has been more error propagated from the press in the last ten years than in a hundred years before,' was the jaundiced judgement of John Adams, second president of the United States, and a frequent victim of press vituperation and ridicule.9

thinking wrongly about God leads us to live wrongly.

Sometimes, monsters are real," Tess said, rolling over, leaving me alone with the ladybug staring up at me. "Even if they don't look like monsters.

I've seen the photos," he said. "Photos are never the same as the real thing," I said.

There's no reality but versions of reality.

His men knew they could trust him not to be officious over such an unfortunate (though by no means isolated) friendly-fire incident, and to tell the dead Guardsman's family that he had died heroically. Sometimes in war, as he was to say later, the truth has to be defended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Churchill once observed that in wartime, truth is so precious that she needs to be defended by a bodyguard of lies.)

incontrovertible.

When Stalin approved of issuing fake invasion plans for Overlord, Churchill said, to Stalin's vast amusement, 'In wartime, Truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

On Liberty, 'that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake.

And there is no realer man than I," Vanniv replied with a nod. "Excepting for the fact that I am a magically created copy of the original Vanniv, of course, and thus completely fake.

The absolute truth is that if you don't know what you want, you won't get it.

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

You bluffed me I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.