Quotes About Truth

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

For Donald, lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was.

Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

I always work on the principle that if my heart and my head are together on an issue, write it, say it.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

We must face facts. I have made that my guiding principle in office.

I hope my greatest contribution will be to try to extract principles of truth that will cause us to live our lives in a more effective way and to advance Jesus' purpose in the world.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.

Washington should tell governments that printing lies and teaching intolerance will have consequences in terms of foreign assistance, political support and military aid.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

By 2007, 85% of Americans cited climate change as an important issue, compared with just 33% in prior years. The phrase we invented, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' became a part of the lexicon.

Our generation, I think, has a demand for authenticity that exceeds any prior generation.

I believe that we should keep the truth as a priority.

I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.

Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social, and political forces that have made the United States the most punitive nation on earth. Perhaps they worry the truth might actually set the captives free.

There are many innocent people in prison.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.