Quotes About Truth

The truth, if it ever existed, has gone through its customary transformation into something more easily digested by the human mind.

Most of us tend to be truthful until we are punished for it.

We all know--or at least we are told continually--that we are a divided people. And we know there's a degree of truth in it. We have too often allowed our differences to prevail among us. We have too often allowed ambitious men to play off those differences for political gain. We have too often retreated behind our differences when no one really tried to lead us beyond them. But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.

In Washington, D. C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

Perception is reality. Certainly I can say that my perception is my reality and your perception is your reality. The challenge is to choose a perception that is most likely to create opportunity.

If you're honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.

when something is true in life, that truth shows up in many ways.

Ultimately, you will create transparency. When how you appear is who you are, you are truly free.

Para poder cambiar debes modificar la imagen que tienes de ti y del mundo, para abrirte a nuevos conocimientos y experiencias. Esto es lo que la lectura de este libro hará por ti. Tus fallos del pasado vienen de un error: no te has comprometido a vivir asumiendo la verdad de que tus pensamientos tienen consecuencias tan importantes que crean tu propia realidad.

Always, in order to change, we have to come to a new understanding of self and the world so that we can embrace new knowledge and have new experiences. That is what reading this book will do for you. Your past shortfalls can be traced, at their root, to one major oversight: you haven't committed yourself to living by the truth that your thoughts have consequences so great that they create your reality.

Lessons are built into life. Love and truth must go hand in hand. Love and deceit are contradictory. There is no such thing as love without cost. God's love to us came at the price of the death of His Son, and we can't appreciate that forgiveness and receive that love while substituting our own will for the plan He has for our lives.

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

Don't believe everything you hear today

It did no good to tell himself that it was all in his head if it went on happening anyway. His belief was not required; his disbelief of was no consequence.

down it slow can you ,reverse in think you If .Wayne ,truth the from away you driving He's ...behind soul your leave He'll .snap you until ,band rubber a like out you stretch He'll .soul own your from away you drive He'll

sin, which was another word for 'live.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

Lee would learn the truth about music: that it was the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours, to feel something, to burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school and TV and loading the dishwasher after dinner.

The best works of art have a tendency to fall through time differently than human beings. They remember, but they also anticipate. A good piece can mean different things to different people at different times, and all of those meanings are true, even if they contradict one another.

Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it. Put a stone in your mouth instead of a lie. Put a rock on your tongue instead of gossip. Bury the liars and the wicked under stones until they say no more. More weight, hallelujah.