Quotes About Truth

To write something down is to make a fossil record of a mind. Stories are full of power and force; they seethe with meaning, with truths and lies, evasions and honesty. Speech often has far more weight and urgency than writing. But most words, once spoken, are forgotten, while writing lasts, a point observed early in the seventeenth century by an English vicar named Samuel Purchas.

One Republican said, "I felt that Bryan was the first politician I had ever heard speak the truth and nothing but the truth," even though in every case, when he read a transcript of the speech in the newspaper the next day, he "disagreed with almost all of it.

Don't compare the insides of your marriage to the outsides of other people's marriages. Pictures don't tell the truth. Smiling faces on Christmas cards don't reveal the pain behind the scenes. While your struggles are very personal and often very painful, but they are not unique.

A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.

WHEN IT WAS DECIDED (When was that again, and by whom?) that we were all supposed to choose between fiction and nonfiction, what was not taken into account was that for some of us truth can never be an absolute, that there can (at best) be only less true and more true and sometimes those two collapse inside each other like aTurducken.

When it comes to religion, no one knows anything, especially those who claim to know best.

Lawrence's genius is exploiting the space between fact-based truth and news-based reality, and he created successful campaigns for contenders in local races before advancing to state and national elections.

Sometimes we don't see what it is we don't want to see.

Lord of the Lies - referencing former President Trump

God-loving people have no trouble loving God's law since His laws are reflections of His nature.

The unbelieving world increasingly rejects the truth about God, while the believing world increasingly ignores the truth about God.

The fact is that if the Christian home, church, and school have done their job well and the student has learned well, he may be one of the few on the earth who understand the real world.

Reality (i.e., the truth) is that there is a God in heaven. Reality is that He made us and we are accountable to Him. Reality is that this God has spoken and what He says matters--eternally. Reality is that without His salvation, we are doomed to eternal torment. Reality is that God's Son, Jesus Christ, has died for the sins of the world, that He has risen again, and that whoever believes on Him is given eternal life.

No," she said adamantly. The words had become a set piece: "I want them to see what they've done.

The law lied when it said he had declined the services of a lawyer.

Frazier realized that many suppositions would never be proved. There were possibilities and probabilities and few provabilities.

Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.

The biggest liar in the world is They Say,'" I muttered. "Douglas Malloch.

You don't do what's right because you know it will work out. You do it because you know it's right.

being right is very important to most of us. It is a powerful need, and like all needs, it must be overcome.

The world he saw on the news came to seem like a genre-fusing farce, its story lines ever less plausible, ever more dispiriting. The world of the chamber, by contrast, was all impressionist masterworks, images and plotlines manifestly finer and more nourishing than what, of late, was passing for the real.

We don't matter. There's the good news.

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

Each story weaves together different viewpoints that-in the words of the sages-oppose one another yet are both true. These themes are the underpinnings of stories, the very motives that drive conflict, compromise, and eventual climax.