Quotes About Truth

I don't dive. I'm not a player who dives.

I'm not a diver. I know that.

I'm not a cheat. I'm not a diver.

We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

God does not become more divine when we push him away from us in a sheer, impenetrable voluntarism; rather, the truly divine God is the God who has revealed himself as logos and, as logos, has acted and continues to act lovingly on our behalf.

An account of an expedition is not a novel. Therefore an authentic account can never be given, let alone written down by someone who was not present.

I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, 'That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.'

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

To be in the right is often an expensive business.

There are things I've seen and experienced in this world - things they don't talk about in too many books.

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

I don't write anything that I hadn't experienced or hadn't been through.

I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.

The truth needs to explain why you are the way you are, why you did what you did.

If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.

Certain people should not be allowed to exploit the law, to decide the only way to engage in politics is to accuse others of lying.

The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

I didn't really come out and expose my age.

Those who were behind conspiracies against me and my government will be exposed.