Quotes About Truth

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

All us humans are fouled on both ends. One we shit out of, and the other we talk shit out of.

I can't stand a damn liar and have no respect for one. But an artful exaggerator always gets my full attention and my undying respect. —Nat Love

Nell'invecchiare – e, in realtà, non è che sia poi così vecchio: neanche arrivo ai sessanta – scopro che per me il passato ha più importanza del presente. Non sarà un bene, però è la verità. All'epoca, tutto era ben più intenso. Il sole era più caldo. Il vento più fresco. I cani più svegli.

poi, all'improvviso, la verità mi è saltata agli occhi, semplice come un bicchier d'acqua. La vita è quello che è, ed è tutto tranne che giusta.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

I chiefly concern myself with those who seldom get a hearing, & I don't feel it is incumbent on me to balance their voices with the well-crafted apologetics of the powerful. The powerful are generally excellently served by the mainstream media or propaganda organs. The powerful should be quoted, yes, but to measure their pronouncements against the truth, not to obscure it.

A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling the reader. Balance should not be a smokescreen for laziness.

The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.

The truth is more complicated than that,"she said, "not as neat.

A lie can go around the world twice before the truth gets its socks on.

books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

Jesus said, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

I thought of Matt. I thought of Yael. I thought of the decision I'd made on the plane to finally accept what I already knew in my heart to be true. I thought of the verse about what true love looks like—laying down your life for others.

and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him,'" the voice replied.

Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

At the time he seemed both ancient and French, but the wisdom that has come with age tells me he was thirty-two and faking the accent.

sight all that sounds?" Harry asked. "That's why I take my fee up front," Smith said. "No offense, Lou," he added. "Harry's right. It doesn't make sense," Blues said. "King was acquitted of the Byrnes murders. He could take out an ad on a billboard admitting he did it and never do a day in jail. A civil case is just money and he has enough to make that go away." "Dixon, are you trying

Certainty is the sum of need and faith. Wisdom is the remainder of living. Knowledge is the division of doubt by facts. Truth is the product of them all.

The religious upbringing that most people go through, and its association with Western religion, is all based on lies. At some point you either wake up and realise [that] they are lies, or you continue in a fog. I realised I had been lied to and wanted to know the truth.

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you'll lie about bigger things.

I am not who people say I am. I am who God says I am.