Quotes About Truth

sometimes people use complete honesty as an excuse for sadism.

For Fauci, science was a self-correcting compass, always pointed at the truth. For Trump, the truth was Play-doh, and he could twist it to fit the shape of his desire.

al-Qaidas ledare utarbetade en författning och förordningar, som beskrev organisationens utopiska målsättning i tydliga ordalag: Att upprätta sanningen, utplåna ondskan och upprätta en islamsk nation.

The danger in holding on to a myth is that it becomes like a religion we've stopped believing in. It no longer instructs us; it only stultifies is. And besides, what do we want with a myth that makes us into people we don't want to be?

The basis of any scam is telling people what they want to hear. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

You tell a lot of lies, Ms. Berenson," he said. Berenson said nothing. Neagley said, "She's Human Resources. It's what they do.

Facts were to be faced, not fought.

Hopeless is hopeless, and don't ever pretend it ain't

People who say no right away are usually lying. A truthful person is perfectly capable of saying no but generally they stop and think about it first. And they add sorry or something like that. Maybe they come out with some questions of their own. It's human nature. They say, Sorry, no, why, what happened?

There was nothing she had neglected to tell him, nothing he had neglected to tell her. People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things properly, there's nothing much to regret.

He liked fiction better than fact, because fact often wasn't. Like most people he knew a couple of things for sure, up close and eyeballed, and when he saw them in books they were wrong. So he liked made-up stories better, because everyone knew where they were from the get-go. He wasn't strict about genre. Either shit happened, or it didn't.

He also said the day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.

That was for damn sure.

Realitatile sunt musafiri nepoftiti in lumea fanteziei.

They're scientists at heart, and scientists generally retain a good-faith interest in facts and the truth. Or at least they retain some kind of innate curiosity. All of which was good, because this guy's attitude was going to be crucial. He could stay out of our way, or he could sell us out with a single phone call.

Exactly patriotic. My country, right or wrong. Which means nothing, unless you admit your country is wrong sometimes. Loving a country that was right all the time would be common sense, not patriotism.

Admit nothing, even on your deathbed. You might suddenly get better.

Only a fool would be dishonest about that could be disproved in a matter of seconds.

The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.

You can't be real-world smart and real-world dumb, all at the same time. You can't be rational and irrational. You can't deal with reality and simultaneously not deal with it.

Major Sullivan is working on that. She wants everything dismissed. The fruits of a poisoned tree.

That's the problem with denial. Reality doesn't care what you think. It just keeps rolling along.

Garber always tells the truth. So nobody ever believes him.

Deal with it," Reacher said. "It happened. It can't un-happen. Most folks aren't going to like it. Deep down humans haven't been modern very long. But some won't care. You'll find them." "Are you one of them?