Quotes About Truth

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

Invisible things are the only realities.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

In the culture of do and tell, the biggest problem is that we cannot really know how valid or appropriate what we tell or are told is to the situation, unless we ask.

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The paradox is that the main inhibitor of useful telling is often our own failure to inquire in a way that makes it safe for others to tell us the truth, or at least to share all of what they know.

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway?

The truth was this: I did not have the brains.

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are or what?

Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute.

The truth was they both played a game, mythical and perverse, but for all that comforting: it was one of the many dangerous pleasures of domestic love.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.