Quotes About Truth

9. How can we tell if a politician is telling the truth? Is there a way to know for sure? You may remember the old joke: "How do you know if a politician is lying? If he's moving his lips." It's not that funny anymore, is it? Obviously, there is no certain way to know at the moment something is said. But remember this: past performance serves to reveal future behavior. A person who has exhibited a pattern of lying is a liar.

Truth is truth. If a thousand people believe something foolish, it is still foolish! Truth is never dependent upon consensus of opinion. I have found that it is better to be alone and acting upon the truth in my heart than to follow a gaggle of silly geese doomed to mediocrity.

When a person says, "What I believe is just as valid as anything you or anyone else believes," recognize the statement for what it is: a declaration that is not only childish and untrue but also easily refuted. Mature people understand that while they are entitled to their own opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts.

If a person has any inclination toward the best that life has to offer, a constant and never-ending search for truth is a must. For while one can know the truth and never achieve the best, it is not possible to achieve the best without knowing the truth.

the past is what actually happened. History is merely what someone wrote.

Learning's purest form is realized by the individual who continues a quest beyond the classroom, fueled by a passion to discern wisdom. Wisdom — genuine truth — holds the key to refining one's thinking. One seed, carefully tended, contains within it the power to change the world, for that single seed can yield an uncountable and ever-increasing number of seeds just as valuable

It is only by your hand that the mind's choices bear fruit. Intentions are like physical beauty—they mean nothing. At some point, a person must actually do something. One's beliefs must become works. By your hand, you establish evidence for others in the truth of what you believe.

On the top deck, it is easy to believe what one sees is the same throughout the ship. But if one of the officers has slipped below and drilled a hole in the hull, smooth sailing is only an illusion.

If it is correct that "you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free," then is it possible that if you don't know the truth, its absence can place you in bondage?

By the way, have you ever noticed that if any one of us lies to them, it is a felony? But if any one of them lies to us, it is considered politics.

My father believed that the truth was like a wild animal--just let it loose and it will defend itself.

No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always — always — makes itself known.

Learning's purest form," Jones replied, "is realized by the individual who continues a quest beyond the classroom, fueled by a passion to discern wisdom. Wisdom—genuine truth—holds the key to refining one's thinking.

In almost everything in his life, he's relentlessly pursuing the question of how the common people are deceived, and constantly thinking of creative and humorous ways to make them realize it.

Anybody who says he's not scared is either a liar or mentally deficient.

That's the trouble with stereotypes: they are not wholly disconnected from the truth.

I think the word 'love' should be used sparingly and truthfully.

How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true.

Contrary to popular belief, not everyone is entitled to their opinion. If you don't know the facts, your opinion doesn't count.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it.

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both... It's easy to create an all-truth church model. It may be even easier to create an all-grace model, but Jesus didn't leave either option on the table.