Quotes About Truth

I'm not good at games, Robert. Don't kiss me unless it's for read. Don't come around unless you mean to stay. Do you mean marriage? he asked coolly, his expressive eyebrows lifting. ...if you're looking for a summer affair, I'm not your woman. His mouth twisted as an unreadable expression crossed his face. Oh, but you are. You just haven't admitted it to yourself yet.

She had learned that if you kept asking the same question, you would often get different answers, and eventually the evasions would cease and the real answer would emerge.

There was political correctness, and then there was reality, and the reality was that people were people. -Mr. Perfect

Unfortunately, what should or should not be had no relation to what was.

because that would be a lie. He was sorry they weren't spending the

den a lot of times myself," she confessed.

A myth is a story that is more than true. Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at some time, lived it. It is based on fact. But a myth is more than true because it is lived by all of us, at some level. It's a story that connects and speaks to us all.

It was all about words. If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away.

But the truth might as well not exist to those who refuse to believe it.

Olympus, of course not! If you are to be a politician, your natural medium is lying. Surely your agent has explained that?

There is a real world; its properties are not merely social constructions; facts and evidence do matter. What sane person would contend otherwise? And yet, much contemporary academic theorizing consists precisely of attempts to blur these obvious truths.

Prior to deciding whether science intrinsically tells the truth, we must ask, again and again, whether it is possible, or prudent, to isolate facts from values. This is a crucial question to ask, because it bears upon the kind of progressive society we want to promote.

However, these criteria, admirable as they are, are insufficient for a liberatory, postmodern science: they liberate human beings from the tyranny of absolute truth and objective reality, but not necessarily from the tyranny of other human beings. In Andrew Ross's words, we need a science that will he publicly answerable and of some service to progressive interests 0991, 29).

Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, and not an effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. I believe in morality, in justice, in humanitarianism.

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

I cannot keep my mouth shut, even when it is dangerous to have it open. If, for example, I hear somebody, even an important and easily irascible Somebody, say that Montaigne was born around the year 1600, I simply have to open my mouth and declare: "You are mistaken, sir, Montaigne was born in the year 1533.

It may be that I have sought to cultivate that trait in myself to such a high degree because I think of myself primarily as a writer. The chief satisfaction in the whole business of writing, it seems to me, comes down to saying what is, or what you think is.

Dac? nu mori tân?r, uneori trebuie s? te contrazici.

und die halbe Wahrheit, die vorgibt, die ganze zu sein, ist schlimmer als die schlimmste Lüge.

It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1) How

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (James 1:22) In

Jesus is truth. And I propose that Jesus is the Adamant.