Quotes About Truth

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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. —Henry David Thoreau

His smile was constant, which was a signal—you only smile when something makes you smile. If you smile all the time, you're hiding something.

They're lying. Angel's friends, her brother—they all know more than they're saying. And yet they also seem genuinely concerned and want her back. Meaning?

Anyway, I grew up with a mom who regularly manipulated reality to best suit her needs. I

wish I had an answer for her. Something simple like Because, or poignant, such as Every child deserves to be found, or defiant, like Why not? But the truth is, she's probably heard it all by now. A whole torrent of words and reasons. Instead of being given the one thing she wants most: answers.

If clothes are camouflage, then scars are exclamation points of honesty.

Satan's strategy is effective because he sprinkles his poisonous brew with just enough veracity that we'll swallow it.

A few bad apples, Okay I grant u that ~ Bentz

Stories," she says, "are the only thing in this world that are real. Everything else is just a dream.

All men are weak,' said Phin. 'That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.' My breath caught at the power of this statement. I immediately knew it to be the truest thing I'd ever heard. The weakness of men lay at the root of every bad thing that had ever happened.

You can keep telling girls to be polite, to keep a level head and it'll all work out in the end. But don't be surprised when they figure out that you've been feeding them lies.

Somebody is always hiding something.

I don't even like horror movies. The world has enough real monsters without creating fictional monsters.

Lies; they always come back to haunt you.

Harry Truman never said 'Give 'em hell.' He said, 'I just told him the truth and they thought it was hell.

She'd believed in forever in her twenties, when Gray had said it, meaning every word, and she'd believed in forever in her thirties, when William had said it, lying through his teeth. But she'd lived long enough to know that forever couldn't be guaranteed to anyone. Even tomorrow couldn't be relied upon.

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History taught that the cover-up was always worse than the crime.

Lawyers can't lie, officially. Only Congress.

Words are our weapons.